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Policy Forum Human Rights Research and Ethics Review: Protecting Individuals or Protecting the State? Joseph J. Amon1,2*, Stefan D. Baral2,3, Chris Beyrer2,3, Nancy Kass2,4 1 Health and Human Rights Division, Human Rights Watch, New York, New York, United States of America, 2 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 3 Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 4 Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America Background roles of RECs and researchers to ensure before research can be implemented. More genuine protection of the individuals recently, the World Health Organization Human rights violations play an important involved in human rights investigations. published standards for such committees role as determinants of, or structural barriers Here we present examples of how outlining key requirements for their struc- to, health [1–6]. Research, investigation, and human rights researchers can address com- ture, governance, and review standards [21]. documentation focused on human rights plex ethical challenges by building the Over the last ten years, there has been have led to the development of rights-based capacity of community-based organizations extraordinary growth in the numbers of RECs interventions [7,8] and the promotion of representing vulnerable populations and by in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). human rights in the core strategies of