AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program

AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition

STEM Society Actions on Human Rights

Annual Meeting Sessions on Human Rights

• 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
• 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

Public Events on Human Rights

• American Statistical Association, Post-Earthquake Efforts in Haiti, 2010
• American Society of Civil Engineers, Webinar, Civil Engineering and Human Rights, 2011

Awards for Human Rights Work

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

Publications on Human Rights

• 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 Psychological Association, The debate continues: psychologists continue to discuss the field’s involvement in interrogations, APA Monitor (October 2008)
• American Sociological Association, Sociology of Human Rights, ASA Footnotes, November (2005)
• American Statistical Association, Statisticians Seen, Heard at Human Rights Coalition, Amstat News (April 2009)
• Association of American Geographers, Geography and Human Rights, AAG Newsletter, September (2008)
• Ecological Society of America, Science as a Human Rights: ESA and the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition, ESA Bulletin, January (2011)

Defending the Welfare of Scientists

• 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)

 

(page updated 11/15/2011)