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Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Project
Project Staff
Audrey Chapman, Ph.D., Director of the AAAS Science
and Human Rights Program, will serve as project co-director. She will provide
overall supervision of project staff, finances and operations and will play
a central role in developing and writing the report identifying the 10-15 common
violations of ESCR and exploring the theoretical issues they raise. Dr. Chapman
is trained as a political scientist and an ethicist. She spent nine years engaged
in social science research in four countries in Africa and the Middle East and
is the author of eight books and numerous articles on human rights, women and
development issues and ethics. Dr. Chapman is an internationally recognized
expert on health and human rights and monitoring economic, social and cultural
rights, which are two of her major research interests, and she is frequently
invited to speak at international conferences and meetings on these topics.
She was an invited participant at the conference at Maastricht University that
adopted an influential set of guidelines on monitoring economic, social and
cultural rights.
Manuel Guzman, Executive Director of HURIDOCS, will
also serve as project co-director. Mr. Guzman has been active in the HURIDOCS
network since 1988, and became its Executive Director in 1995. He has an extensive
background in human rights and community development and has worked with human
rights organizations at the national, regional and international levels, including
long-term affiliations with several human rights NGOs in the Philippines. In
recent years Mr. Guzman has focused on human rights documentation and the application
of information technology to human rights. He has designed databases for human
rights NGOs and has written or co-authored several books and articles on human
rights documentation.
Stephen Hansen, M.A., Senior Program Associate in the
AAAS Science and Human Rights Program, will serve as the project’s technical
director. He will be responsible for development of the monitoring system and
for overseeing the project’s use of the World Wide Web. Mr. Hansen has
had 14 years of professional experience in application consulting, design and
programming. He has also been a pioneer in the application of document database
technology and has assisted in developing several commercial PC and mainframe-based
document database applications. Since 1995, he has worked extensively in human
rights documentation projects, primarily in Latin America.
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