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The application of science and technology to human rights is a specialty of
SHRP. Through Science for Human Rights, SHRP brings scientific tools,
techniques, and technologies (TTTs) to bear on human rights challenges in the
field, and builds the capacity of human rights organizations to effectively
use these aids. SHRP pursues this area of work with the following objectives:
- To contribute to the greater and more effective promotion, protection, and
fulfillment of human rights, and to the prevention of violations, through
the application of new TTTs;
- To expand the human rights community’s benefit from scientific methods and
TTTs through the demonstration of their usefulness; and
- To transfer the appropriate skills and capacity to human rights partners
at home and around the world to ensure the application of TTTs in the field,
where they are directly needed.
SHRP is developing its capacity to identify, explore,
and develop a variety of scientific tools, techniques, and technologies for
human rights applications. Currently, the Program possesses an advanced Geospatial
Technologies program, and has begun research on the potential human rights
applications of the following technologies:
Wireless Communication
Technologies
Network Mapping
Budget Analysis
SHRP has a long history of building capacity through training with the goal
of diffusing essential scientific skills and expertise for field-driven applications.
SHRP began its capacity-building work in the 1980s with forensic and genetic
sciences, when the Program provided training and support to local teams of forensic
anthropologists, resulting in the establishment of two renowned organizations:
Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense (Argentina) and Fundación de Antropología
Forense de Guatemala.
The transfer of scientific skills and capacity building remain integral to
SHRP’s work. Each of its science programs entails such a component to enable
its human rights partners to aquire the appropriate skills and know-how in the
course of implementing joint projects.
Contact Us: If
you are a human rights practitioner or represent a human rights organization
or institution and would like to receive training in any area of our work.
(page updated 10/24/2007)
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