Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 provides that:
1. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share scientific advancement and its benefits.
2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
(http://www.claiminghumanrights.org/udhr_article_27.html ) but no mention is made to the right to carry out scientific investigation.
At which level can freedom of scientific research be considered as a human right?
Article 27 cited is the foundation of cultural freedom, however concatenated with Clause 19 of the same law gives us the right to investigate.
WIPO on its website provides foundation in international law to protect scientific research.
Consequently, the right to investigate scientifically is a human right of first level.
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