AAAS Science and Human Rights Program

Science Serving Human Rights: Making It Happen

Thursday, 23 October 2008
3:00 - 5:30 pm

(followed by refreshments)

AAAS Auditorium
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005
(map)

In advance of the January 2009 launch of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition, the working group on Service to the Human Rights Community is delighted to hold this, its first outreach event. In furtherance of the working group’s objective of highlighting the many and varied ways in which science and scientists can contribute to human rights work, the event will feature scientists and human rights practitioners who have teamed up to tackle human rights challenges.

“On-call” Scientists On this occasion, the AAAS Science and Human Rights Program will unveil a new project and web-based tool to facilitate partnerships between human rights organizations requiring scientific expertise, and scientists prepared, on a pro bono basis, to respond.   The event will highlight the value of science and scientific expertise for human rights work by featuring three teams of scientists and human rights practitioners who have worked together on projects that yielded important outcomes and lessons. Join us for a conversation with an epidemiologist, a geographer, a forensic pathologist, and three human rights practitioners with whom they partnered. The teams were interviewed about how they found each other, their experience of working together, their preconceptions, and what they accomplished together.   Teams   Epidemiologist Chris Beyrer Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Human Rights Practitioner Philip Fornaci Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, DC Prisoners' Project — Who teamed up to secure health rights in Washington, DC — Geographer Lars Bromley AAAS, Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project Human Rights Practitioner Ariela Blatter Amnesty International USA, Center for Crisis Preparedness and Response — Who teamed up to document violations in Darfur — Forensic Pathologist Yvonne Milewski Suffolk County Department of Health Services, New York Human Rights Practitioner Susannah Sirkin Physicians for Human Rights, International Policy and Advocacy

— Who teamed up to investigate mass graves in Bosnia — Moderated by Aubrey McCutcheon, Director of Programs for Global Rights Co-Hosted by AAAS Science and Human Rights Program (SHRP) Washington Statistical Society (WSS) Capital Area Social Psychological Association (CASPA)

(page updated 10/27/2008 )