The individual’s right to knowledge in the system of human rights

Abstract

Freedom of research is essential in order to enable scientific research. It can be defined as a right to knowledge. Most often the right to knowledge is equated with the right to education, understood as the practice of science or education, or wrongly, as the right to public information. Despite the fact that freedom of research appears in the provisions of national and international law, the same right to knowledge has not been explicitly formulated. However, it should be considered a basic human right, although derived from other individual rights. The right to knowledge includes three areas: freedom of research, the right to disseminate research results, the right of access to these research results.