AAAS Science and Human Rights Program

In the News: Science and Human Rights Program

AAAS Leads Planning for a Science and Human Rights Coalition
    (AAAS) Apr. 2, 2008

Advancing Human Rights Through Science and Scientific Societies:
AERA Participates in Coalition Planning Meeting
     Educational Researcher, Vol. 37, No. 1, January/February 2008

New Support for Satellite-Based Human Rights Work
    (AAAS) Mar. 5, 2008

AAAS Symposium Explores Importance of Human Rights Role for Science Societies
    (AAAS) Jan. 4, 2008

Myanmar’s Descent, Seen From 150 Miles Up
    (NYT) Sept. 29, 2007

Satellite Images May Show Myanmar Abuses
    (Washington Post)

(Miami Herald)
     Sept. 28, 2007

Violence in Myanmar Exposed By Satellite Images
    (National Geographic) Sept. 28, 2007

An Eye in the Sky on Burma
    (Time) Sept. 28, 2007

Satellite Photos May Prove Abuses in Myanmar
    (CNN) Sept. 28, 2007

Satellites Focus on Abuses in Myanmar
    (MSNBC) Sept. 28, 2007

Satellite Images Corroborate Eyewitness Accounts of Human Rights Abuses in Burma
    (AAAS) Sept. 28, 2007

Monitor Darfur from your living room
    (Foreign Policy) June 18, 2007

Darfur crisis rages on 4 years later
    (Rutland Herald) June 17, 2007

Satellite images put all eyes on Darfur
    (SciDev.net) June 14, 2007

Amnesty uses commercial satellite imagery to monitor Darfur
    (Jane's) June 13, 2007

Amnesty Launches 'Eyes on Darfur' Site
    (Washington Post) June. 7, 2007

Satellite Imagery for Conflict Prevention and Human Rights
    (AAAS) Dec. 6, 2006

Monitoring human rights? Get a satellite.
    (Christian Science Monitorl) June 22, 2006

Zimbabwe: Satellite Images Provide Shocking Evidence of the Obliteration of a Community
    (Amnesty International) - Includes links to satellite imagery and on-the-ground footage. May 31, 2006

Satellite images reveal evidence of Zimbabwe demolitions
    (Guardian) May 31, 2006

Satellite imagery used to spot human rights abuses
    (Kottke) May 31, 2006

Suffering Persists After Zimbabwe Razing Campaign
    (NPR) May 31, 2006

Pioneering AAAS Project Finds Strong Evidence of Zimbabwe Repression
    (AAAS) - Includes interviews with some AAAS staff. See also the press release on EurekAlert.
     May 30, 2006

New AAAS Project Will Explore Geospatial Technology and Human Rights
    (AAAS) Jan. 27, 2006

Amnesty Releases 'Irrefutable' Evidence of Zimbabwe Demolition Impact
    (VOA) May 30, 2006 - Includes interviews with Amnesty staff.

Horror in Zimbabwe
    (Washington Times)

Zimbabwe demolition images shown
    (BBC) May 31, 2006

Satellite to Document Rights Abuses in Burma
    (Irrawaddy)

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