AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program

Launch of the Science and Human Rights Coalition

January 14, 2009: Opening Plenary (Audio) (Links to presentations, below)


• Alan Leshner, Chief Executive Officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Mercedes Doretti, co-founder of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, and 2007 MacArthur "Genius Award" recipient
• Sidney Verba, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Government at Harvard University, and current Chair of the Committee on Human Rights of the National Academies
• Mary Robinson, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and former President of Ireland
  
  January 15 (Audio) (Links to presentations, below)
  
  
• "A Personal Perspective on Science and Human Rights": Peter Agre, Johns Hopkins University and AAAS President-elect
• "Introducing the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition": Mona Younis, Director of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Program (Also available in pdf).
• "Scientific Associations and Human Rights": Douglas Richardson, Executive Director of the Association of American Geographers
  
  
January 16 (Audio)


• "Where do we go from here?": Brad Miller, American Chemical Society, and Susan Hinkins, American Statistical Association
• "Closing remarks": Douglas Richardson, Association of American Geographers, and Mona Younis, AAAS Science and Human Rights Program

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