Scientists need to come together to fight for human rights, science diplomacy and peace, says Zafra Lerman, a chemist who has been working for many years on human rights abuses against scientists and on the use of science as a bridge to peace.
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Lerman, Z. Keep up the fight for scientists’ human rights. Nat Rev Mater 7, 497–498 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-022-00456-7
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