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Human Rights and the Challenges of Science and Technology, Stephen Marks, December 2014, Paper. "The expansion of the corpus of international human rights to include the right to water and sanitation has implications both for the process of recognizing human rights and for future developments in the relationships between technology, engineering and human rights. Concerns with threats to human rights resulting from developments in science and technology were expressed in the early days of the United Nations (UN), along with the recognition of the ambitious human right of everyone 'to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications.' This comment explores the hypothesis..." Link