AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program

AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition

Resources for Scientific Society Action on Human Rights

The following is a compilation of links to assist scientific societies in their human rights activities. If you know of a valuable resource, please contact us.

Databases, Search Engines, and Virtual Libraries:

• Meta Search Engine This site allows you to search multiple human rights sites.
• Virtual Library International Human Rights Web Sites International, Reginal & National Human Rights Protection Mechanisms, Law & Policy Maintained by the Human Rights Research and Education Centre of the University of Ottawa, this site has a great collection of links that have been organized in useful categories.
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library: This site is a comprehensive research tool that houses one of the largest collections of more than sixty thousand core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties.  Documents are available in nine languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
  

Advice and Tips:

• Letterwriting tools by Human Rights USA, includes contact information for embassies and foreign heads of state.
• Advocacy Tips A set of links to online advocacy resources maintained by IGC.

Visas:

• International Visitors Office (IVO) of the National Academies of Science. The site provides useful information related to visas, including an online questionnaire used to collect information on scientific mobility and the free flow of scientists, statistics on visas, and a section dedicated to answering questions for those organizing international meetings in the United States.