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To encourage and facilitate efforts to bridge the scientific and human rights communities, the Coalition will need to identify, compile, and develop resources and create opportunities for exchange to establish a stronger foundation for productive, collaborative work on human rights. Crucial for this project is the exchange of information on scientists’ understanding of what science can bring to human rights work and what human rights practitioners can bring to science. Other topics to be explored include what the scientific method entails, what the human rights approach requires, and the role the media traditionally has played in conveying information produced by both communities.
- Identify the information about science, the scientific method, technologies, etc. that human rights practitioners require; compile what exists; develop a plan for producing what does not;
- Identify the information about human rights, the human rights system, methodology, etc. that scientists require; compile what exists; develop a plan for producing what does not;
- Explore information tools and forms to disseminate resource materials, including articles, website content, brochures, teaching aids, and primers.
- Syllabi on Science and Human Rights - an online list of courses and teaching modules, with PDFs attached, on science and human rights.
- Science and Human Rights: A Select Annotated Bibliography - a bibliography of selected citations that illustrate interest in science and human rights within various scientific disciplines and among scientific associations.
- Bibliographic Database [coming soon] - searchable keyworded database using Zotero software that includes material from the annotated bibliography along with many more citations.
- Partnerships: Scientists Working With Human Rights Organizations - examples of collaborations between scientists from a variety of disciplines and human rights practitioners that cover economic, social, and cultural rights as well as civil and political rights;
- Primer on Article 15 - a guide that summarizes the development and significance of Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and offers suggestions on how the scientific community might incorporate Article 15 into its activities such as teaching, research, education and policy-advising.
- Translation Guide - a document to describe differences as well as similarities in the way scientists and human rights practitioners approach connections between human rights and science.
For further information about the working group’s objectives and activities, click here.
If you wish to find out more about this working group and how your association can participate, please contact the working group co-chairs, Judith Blau (Sociologists Without Borders), Jeffrey Toney (Sigma Xi), or Amy Crumpton.
(page updated
11/04/2009)
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