AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program

AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition

Member Actions on Human Rights

• Annual Meeting Sessions on Human Rights
• Public Events on Human Rights
• Awards for Human Rights Work
• Declarations, Resolutions, and Statements on Human Rights
• Publications on Human Rights
• Newsletter Articles on Human Rights
• Defending the Welfare of Scientists
• Human Rights Committees, Sections, Working Groups
• Ethics Codes Incorporating Human Rights

Annual Meeting Sessions on Human Rights

• American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, keynote address by Carolyn Miles, CEO of Save the Children, Child Survival: The Winnable Fight, 2012
• Sociologists Without Borders and American Sociological Association, pre-meeting conference on the theory and practice of human rights prior to the ASA annual meeting, 2012
• American Sociological Association, sponsored panels on human rights including rights of research subjects, 2012
• American Chemical Society, Forensic Chemistry, Science and the Law Presents: Innocence! The Work of the Innocence Project, 2012
• Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Psychology and Human Rights: Current Efforts and Future Prospects, 2012
• American Psychological Association, Psychology and Human Rights---Issues and Future Directions, 2012
• American Statistical Association, Repression of Statistics and Statisticians by the Argentine Government: Recent Developments, the Human Rights Context, and International Responses, 2012
• Psychologists for Social Responsibility, Psychology and the Occupy Movement: Synergies for Social Change, 2012
• International Studies Association, agenda includes several symposia and speakers that address human rights, for example, "MNCs and the Protection of Human Rights", "Quantitative Analysis of Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention", and "Security, Human Rights and the War on Terror", 2012
• Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting human rights track, Mary Robinson, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights lecture on Mapping the Future of Climate Change, 2012
• Association of American Geographers, Mobilities, Borders, and Imprisonment V: Conceptualizing Migration-related Detention, 2011
• American Society of Civil Engineers, American Chemical Society, and AAAS, panelists, Council of Engineering and Science Society Executives session on Science and Human Rights, 2011
• American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Emmett Till – Forensic scientists on the case that sparked America's Civil Rights Movement, 2011
• American Public Health Association, Health as a Human Right, 2006

Public Events on Human Rights

• American Society of Civil Engineers, Webinar, Applying a Human Rights Framework to Civil Engineering, 2013
• American Chemical Society, Webinar series, Coffee for Justice – Chemistry in Service to Small-holder Coffee Producers, 2012
• Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Congressional hearing on technology and human trafficking, 2012
• Sigma Xi representative, Jeff Toney, Science and Human Rights: A Bridge Towards Benefiting Humanity, 2012
• Council on Undergraduate Research, plenary address on "Need of Niche? Advancing Education at the Intersection of Science and Human Rights", 2012
• American Society of Civil Engineers, Webinar, Civil Engineering and Human Rights, 2011
• American Statistical Association, Post-Earthquake Efforts in Haiti, 2010

Awards for Human Rights Work

• American Orthopsychiatric Association, Marion Langer Award Lecture, Respect: On Witness and Justice, 2012
• American Sociological Association, Distinguished Career Award, 2012
• American Political Science Association, Human Rights Section, Best Dissertation Award, The Decision to Comply: Patterns of compliance with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 2012
• American Physical Society, Andrei Sakharov Prize
• American Political Science Association, Human Rights Books/Dissertation awards
• Psychologists for Social Responsibility, The Anthony J. Marsella Prize
• International Studies Association, Human Rights Topic Paper Awards

Declarations, Resolutions, and Statements on Human Rights

• American Chemical Society, Presidential statement, 2012
• Sociologists Without Borders, Sociologists without Borders Human Rights Manifesto
• American Sociological Association, Updated Statement Affirming and Expanding Commitment to Human Rights, 2009
• American Sociological Association, Statement on Human Rights, 2005
• American Industrial Hygiene Association, Statement on Sweatshops In Global Economy, 2001
• American Anthropological Association, Declaration on Anthropology and Human Rights, 1999
• American Physical Society, Human Rights Statements
• American Psychological Association, Human Rights Resolutions

Publications on Human Rights

• Sociologists Without Borders, symposium on the implications of the American Sociological Association's 2009 Human Rights Statement for Research, Teaching and Service, August 2012
• American Political Science Association,Democratic Imperatives: Innovations in Rights, Participation, and Economic Citizenship, June 2012
• American Anthropological Association, Waging War, Making Peace: Reparations and Human Rights, (edited by Barbara Rose Johnston and Susan Slyomovics), 2009
• American Public Health Association, Human Rights: The Foundation of Public Health Practice, Rosalia Rodriguez-Garcia, Mohammad N. Akhter, 2000

Newsletter Articles on Human Rights

• American Statistical Society, Statistics and Human Rights, AmstatNews, November 2012
• National Center for Science and Civic Engagement, series on science and human rights, SENCER, October 2012
• American Philosophical Association, Right to science?, October 2012
• American Psychological Association, Psychologists obtain training on human rights law and evaluation of torture survivors, June 2012
• Sociologists Without Borders, Human Rights and the Social Sciences, April 2012
• Ecological Society of America, Science as a Human Rights: ESA and the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition, ESA Bulletin, January 2011
• American Statistical Association, Statisticians Seen, Heard at Human Rights Coalition, Amstat News, April 2009
• American Psychological Association, The debate continues: psychologists continue to discuss the field’s involvement in interrogations, APA Monitor, October 2008
• Association of American Geographers, Geography and Human Rights, AAG Newsletter, September 2008
• American Sociological Association, Sociology of Human Rights, ASA Footnotes, November 2005

Defending the Welfare of Scientists

• American Chemical Society, opened a Website petition on behalf of a scientist detained in Turkey, 2012
• American Chemical Society, Letter of appeal on behalf of scientist imprisoned in Iran, 2012
• Committee of Concerned Scientists, Advocacr on behalf of Bahraini health care professionals, 2012
• American Physical Society, Letter - Concern on behalf of scientists in Iran, 2012
• American Anthropological Associations, Committee for Human Rights Letter Responding to threats to Anthropologists in Guatemala, 2008
• American Physical Society, Committee for the International Freedom of Scientists Active Cases
• American Political Science Association, Statements on the Rights of Political Scientists
• American Sociological Association, Statement - Addressing Human Rights Violations of U.S. Scholars , 2001
• American Philosophical Association, Committee for the Defense of the Professional Rights of Philosophers
• International Studies Association, Academic Freedom Committee
• American Historical Association, Academic Freedom in the Age of Homeland Security; Letter of Concern over Denial of Visa

Human Rights Committees, Sections, Working Groups

• American Anthropological Association, Committee for Human Rights (Established 1995)
• American Political Science Association, Human Rights Section (Established 2001)
• American Psychological Association, Committee on International Relations (Established 1944)
• American Public Health Association, International Health Section Advocacy Committee (International Human Rights Committee Coming Soon)
• Association of American Geographers, Ethics, Justice, and Human Rights Specialty Group (Established 2004)
• American Statistical Association, Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights

Ethics Codes Incorporating Human Rights

• American Anthropological Association, Code of Ethics
• American Political Science Association A Guide to Professional Ethics in Political Science (See Part C. under "Grievance Procedures")
• American Psychological Association, Code of Ethics (See Preamble)
• American Public Health Association Principles of the Ethical Practice of Public Health (See "Values and Beliefs Underlying the Code")
• Association of American Geographers, Statement on Professional Ethics (See "Ethical Behavior During Field Research")
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Professional Oath for Mathematics Teachers (See last paragraph of Oath)
• Affiliated individual Sam McFarland,Council of the International Society of Political Psychology, Constitution of the (See purposes of the Society)

 

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