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SHRP works to provide opportunities for individual scientists to contribute
their expertise to the important work being undertaken by the human rights community.
SHRP is exploring several initiatives to facilitate and/or support individual
scientists who are tackling human rights-specific problems and challenges, demonstrating
in the process that the human rights field is a rich and rewarding terrain for
scientific inquiry and contribution.
SHRP is currently engaged in developing the following initiatives:
- On-call Scientists
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SHRP is establishing a network of “on-call” scientists who are prepared
as pro bono consultants to advise and assist human rights organizations,
national human rights commissions, and/or field offices of the UN Office
of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). An online database is
being developed to process requests for expertise, enlist the participation
of AAAS members and other scientists, and facilitate optimal partnerships.
- Science and Human Rights Fellows
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As currently envisioned, the initiative will place scientists with a demonstrated
interest in human rights with partnering human rights organizations whose
work demands greater scientific and technical inputs. SHRP is forming a
planning committee to design a program that will place scientists with local/regional
human rights organizations for a one-year term, and for project-specific
work in SHRP, beginning in 2009.
- Graduate Fellowships
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This initiative is envisioned as providing three talented graduate students
with support for one year to conduct advanced research toward a science-based
solution to one or more human rights problem, beginning in 2009. In addition
to the potential discovery of new applications of science for human rights
ends, the fellowship is intended to raise the profile of human rights in
university science departments, encourage young scientists to pursue work
in that area, and promote human rights and science as a potential academic
subfield.
Contact
Us: If you are a scientist and would like to participate
in any of these initiatives.
(page updated 08/08/2007)
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