AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program

AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition

Directory of Scientific Society Action on Human Rights

This website serves as a resource for scientific societies that may be interested in networking with other scientific societies or learning what other groups are doing in the area of human rights. This website will be of interest to human rights organizations who are interested in partnering with scientific societies on specific activities, such as fact-finding missions or letterwriting campaigns. If you know of a scientific society that should be listed here, or that the information needs to be updated, please contact us.

Click on the links for more information about the society:

• American Anthropological Association, Committee on Human Rights
• American Association of Forensic Sciences
• American Association of University Professors
• American Association of University Women
• American Chemical Society, Subcommittee on Human Rights
• American Educational Research Association
• American Mathematical Society, Committee on Human Rights
• American Physical Society, Committee on International Freedom of Scientists
• American Political Science Association, Human Rights Section
• American Psychological Association, Committee on International Relations of Psychology
• American Statistical Association, Committee on Scientific Freedom & Human Rights
• Association of American Geographers, Ethics, Justice and Human Rights Specialty Group
• Committee of Concerned Scientists
  
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• Engineers Without Borders-UK
  
• International Student/Young Pugwash
• International Studies Association: Human Rights Section
• Mental Health Workers Without Borders
• National Academies of Science, Committee on Human Rights
• Network of Concerned Historians
• Network for Education and Academic Rights
  
• New York Academy of Sciences, Committee on Human Rights of Scientists
• Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
  
• The Scholars at Risk Network
• Sociologists Without Borders
  

(page updated 9/29/2008)