AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program

AAAS Action Alerts

The AAAS Science and Human Rights Program calls attention to human rights abuses involving scientists and scientific communities through the circulation of Action Alerts issued by professional associations on behalf of their colleagues or by human rights organizations.

Cases that are publicized through the Action Alerts are researched and developed by the association or organization that submits the call for action. The alerts provide important background information on the case(s), and recommend specific actions to support the victim(s) of human rights abuse. The Action Alerts reach hundreds of AAAS members and other concerned scientists and engineers who are a part of SHRP's network.

We invite you to join our Shractionalert network to help publicize cases that require action on the part of the scientific community.

For information and resources on how to conduct advocacy on behalf of colleagues at risk, visit our Resources for Scientific Society Action on Human Rights.

If your scientific association would like to call attention to a colleague(s) under threat, please contact us.

(page updated 11/12/2007)