Principles for Implementing the Right to Academic Freedom_March2024

In the context of academic freedom, social responsibility is the duty to exercise and enjoy academic freedom, consistent with the obligation to seek truth and impart information according to ethical and professional standards, and to respond to contemporary problems and needs of all members of society. [...] S tates are obligated to r espect, protect, and promote the academic freedom of students , as members of education communities or in their individual pursuits, to conduct activities involving the discovery and transmission of information and ideas, and to do so with the full p rotection of human rights law. [...] Threats to, or violations of the rights of students and organized student groups, including by m eans of suspensions and expulsions; arrests and prosecutions; imprisonments and violence; infiltration, surveillance, interference with or dissolution of student associations, unions, and assemblies, by state and non-state actors, undermine academic freedom. [...] Everyone has a right and responsibility, individually and in association with others, to respect, promote and strive for the protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including academic freedom, at the national and international levels. [...] A re academic staff and students free to engage in expression and discourse with persons and groups inside and outside the academic research and teaching sector, without threat or A cademic freedom r etaliation? i ncludes intramural a nd extramural D o laws and policies protecting academic freedom include the freedom to access, disseminate expression a nd produce information, think, and develop, e.