American Chemical Society, Committee on International Activities and Subcommittee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights
Contact: Brad Miller
ACS monitors the world for violations of the human rights of scientists and joins with other societies in petitioning the governments of the countries where such violations take place.
American Mathematical Society, Committee on Human Rights of Mathematicians
Contact: Email
The American Mathematical Society's Committee on the Human Rights of
Mathematicians concentrates its activity of the rights of mathematicians
living outside the United States. It investigates cases or rights abuse,
makes polite inquiries of foreign governments and embassies, and, when,
appropriate, intervenes on behalf either of individuals or, occasionally,
groups of individuals.
American Physical Society, Committee on International Freedom of Scientists
Contact: Pavel Podvig
CIFS is responsible for monitoring concerns regarding human rights for scientists throughout the world. It apprises the APS leadership of problems encountered by scientists in pursuit of their scientific interests or in effecting satisfactory communication with other scientists. CIFS recommends appropriate courses of action designed to alleviate such problems, including writing letters to protest human rights violations.
American Political Science Association, Section on Human Rights
Contact: Julie Mertus
The APSA Section on Human Rights was established to encourage scholarship and facilitate exchange of data and research findings on all components of human rights (e.g., civil, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental), their relationship, determinants and consequences of human rights policies, structure and influence of human rights organizations, development, implementation, impact on international conventions, and changes in the international human rights regime.
American Statistical Association, Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights
Contact: Francoise M. Seillier-Moiseiwitsch
The Committee concerns itself with violations of and threats to the scientific freedom and human rights of statisticians and other scientists throughout the world. The Committee also assists scientific societies on statistical questions relating to data on human rights.
Amnesty International USA – Individuals and Risk program (human rights activists, including scholars, artists, scientists, journalists, public policy officials)
Contact: Email
Cities of Refuge North America (writers, including scholars)
Contact: Email
Cities of Refuge North America aids persecuted writers around the globe by cultivating safe havens for them in North America, spaces where they may practice their craft freely, unfettered by censorship and political repression.
Committee of Concerned Scientists
Contact: Paul Plotz
The Committee of Concerned Scientists speaks out for scholars and scientists who have been the victims of human-rights abuse. They take action to help academic colleagues around the world whose work has been hindered by illegal or repressive measures because of their support of human rights or their critical attitudes towards their own governments.
Committee to Protect Journalists (journalists, translators, some of whom are scientists/scholars)
Contact: Email
CPJ promotes press freedom worldwide by defending the rights of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal.
Council for Assisting Refugee Academics
Contact: Email
Through scholarships and targeted assistance, CARA helps refugee academics re-establish their lives and careers so that their special knowledge and abilities may continue to benefit humankind. CARA also uses its expertise to provide advice and develop resources for the wider refugee community on education, training and employment opportunities.
Front Line Defenders (human rights activists including scientists and scholars)
Contact: Email
Front Line seeks to provide rapid and practical support to at-risk human rights defenders, including a 24-hour emergency response phone line, and promotes the visibility and recognition of human rights defenders as a vulnerable group. They mobilize campaigning and lobbying on behalf of defenders at immediate risk and, in emergency situations, can facilitate temporary relocation.
Human Rights First – Human Rights Defenders program (human rights activists, including scholars, artists, scientists, journalists, public policy officials)
Contact: Email
When defenders are imprisoned, threatened, or at imminent risk, Human Rights First uses its access to high-level government officials and the media to galvanize quick action on the defender’s behalf. We also mobilize our growing grassroots constituency through the online Defender Alert Network.
International Cities of Asylum Network (writers, including scholars)
Contact: Elisabeth Dyvik
The International Cities of Refuge Network is an association of cities around the world dedicated to the value of Freedom of Expression. Each ICORN city focuses on one writer at a time, each writer representing the countless others in hiding, in prison or silenced forever.
International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies
Contact: Carol Corillon
The International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies assists colleagues (scientists and scholars) around the world who are subjected to severe repression solely for having nonviolently exercised their rights. It also promotes human rights consciousness-raising and institutional commitment to human rights work among counterpart academies and scholarly societies worldwide.
International PEN, English PEN (writers, includes scholars)
Contact: Email
International PEN's primary goal is to engage with, and empower, societies and communities across cultures and languages, through reading and writing. They act through the promotion of literature, international campaigning on issues such as translation and freedom of expression and improving access to literature at international, regional and national levels.
National Academies, Committee on Human Rights
Contact: Carol Corillon
The Committee on Human Rights uses the influence and prestige of the institutions the National Academy of Sciences represents on behalf of scientists, engineers, and health professionals anywhere in the world. It works to promote justice for individuals who are threatened, unjustly detained or imprisoned for exercising their basic human rights or for political reasons. Activities of the committee include private inquiries, appeals to governments, moral support to prisoners and their families, and consciousness-raising efforts such as workshops and symposia.
Network for Education and Academic Rights
Contact: Email
NEAR facilitates collaborative action between international organizations active in issues of academic freedom and educational rights and is committed to promoting an understanding of, and respect for, human rights. NEAR receives reports of academic rights violations from its member organizations and credible media sources which are posted as alerts on the NEAR website.
Network of Concerned Historians
Contact: Dr. A. De Baets
NCH serves as a link between concerned historians and human rights organizations. NCH encourages its members to respond to urgent actions supporting persecuted and censored historians (and others who write about the past) issued by other organizations that also protect the human rights of scholars. NCH also forwards to its participants news about the domain where history and human rights intersect. Finally, NCH collects data on persecuted and censored historians and forwards them to the appropriate human rights organizations.
New York Academy of Sciences, Committee on Human Rights of Scientists
Contact: Svetlana Stone-Wachtel
The Committee on Human Rights of Scientists intervenes in cases where scientists, engineers, health professionals, and educators are detained, imprisoned, exiled, murdered, "disappeared," or deprived of the rights to pursue science, communicate their findings with their peers and the general public, and travel freely in accordance with established policies of the International Council for Science.
Reporters Without Borders (journalists, writers, some of whom are scientists/scholars)
Contact: Email
RWB defends journalists and media-assistants imprisoned, mistreated, persecuted or tortured for doing their job. RWB also fights against censorship and laws that undermine press freedom, gives financial aid each year to 100 or so journalists or media outlets in difficulty (to pay for lawyers, medical care and equipment) as well to the families of imprisoned journalists, and works to improve the safety of journalists, especially those reporting in war zones.
Scholar Rescue Fund
Contact: Email
The Fund provides fellowships for established scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries. These fellowships permit professors, researchers and other senior academics to find temporary refuge at universities and colleges anywhere in the world, enabling them to pursue their academic work and to continue to share their knowledge with students, colleagues, and the community at large.
Scholars at Risk Network
Contact: Email
SAR is an international network of universities and colleges responding to scholars who have been attacked because of their words, their ideas and their place in society. SAR promotes academic freedom and defends the human rights of scholars and their communities worldwide through the SAR website, email bulletins, publications and events. The SAR Speaker Series brings threatened scholars to member campuses to engage directly with students, faculty, alumni and the community.
The Social Research Endangered
Scholars Worldwide Project
Contact: Email
Through Social Research, the Endangered Scholars Worldwide Project calls attention to the increasing, often brutal, attempts to silence colleagues around the world. Social Research publishes the names of endangered scholars and provides further details, along with draft letters of protest to the people responsible for their arrest and treatment.
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