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Each month, a member of the Science and Human Rights Coalition is featured in SHRP's Science and Human Rights Newsletter. The following member associations and societies have been "introduced" so far:
American Anthropological Association
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is a voluntary membership organization with over 11,000 professional members, making it the world’s largest organization of anthropologists. In 1995, the AAA created the Committee for Human Rights, a permanent Committee of the AAA that engages in current cases of human right abuse and encourages research and education on all aspects of human rights, from conceptual to applied. In June 1999, the AAA adopted a Declaration on Anthropology and Human Rights which defines the basis for the involvement of AAA and the profession more broadly in human rights based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and other international human rights treaties. Learn more
American Chemical Society
With more than 160,000 members, 19,000 of whom come from outside the United States, the American Chemical Society (ACS) is the world’s largest scientific society. The ACS has a goal to become a global leader in engaging the world’s scientific professionals to address, through chemistry, the challenges facing our world. As part of its activities aimed at reaching this goal, the ACS Committee on International Activities Subcommittee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights monitors the world for violations of the human rights of scientists. ACS joins with other societies in petitioning the governments of the countries where such violations take place. In recent years, the Subcommittee has worked on behalf of scientists in Bulgaria, Cuba, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Mexico, Myanmar, Russia, Sudan and Vietnam, among others. Learn more
American Educational Research Association
The American Educational Research Association (AERA), founded in 1916, is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and evaluation and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.” Among its Special Interest Groups, two are concerned with human rights. The purpose of Critical Educators for Social Justice is to “teach, promote, and implement the principles of critical pedagogy in order to establish and educational movement grounded in the struggle for social and environmental justice, human rights, and economic democracy.” The Peace Education group promotes “dialogue and disseminates research on peace-related issues including work in the areas of conflict, conflict resolution, human rights, social justice, violence, and prejudice.” Learn more
Association of American Geographers
The Association of American Geographers (AAG) isanonprofit scientific and educational association with members from over 60 countries. The AAG promotes discussion among its members and with scholars in related fields, in part through the activities of its specialty groups, including the Ethics, Justice and Human Rights Specialty Group (EJHRSG). The EJHRSG aims to foster research, improve teaching, and help the discipline address its own ethical, justice and rights issues. It supports and encourages inclusive and informed discussion throughout the discipline on normative concerns including applied, theoretical, and professional. Learn more
American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With 148,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide." The Committee on International Relations in Psychology (CIRP) of the APA was founded in 1944 to "advise APA on the rehabilitation of psychological laboratories and libraries in post-World War II Europe. CIRP is now responsible for "developing contact between psychologists in the United States and their colleagues abroad. The Committee's mission includes to: ... monitor within the international context and take action in cases involving infringements of the rights of psychologist or abuse of psychological knowledge and techniques wherever these may occur ... and apply psychological knowledge to the alleviation of psychological suffering attendant upon abuses of human rights. Learn more
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society (APS) is committed to the human rights of physicists. Through its Committee on International Freedom of Scientists, the APS monitors and advocates for the rights of individual scientists in the United States and around the globe. The Society also awards the Andrei Sakharov Prize to scientists who uphold these rights and has acknowledged the rights of scientists through official APS statements. Learn more
American Political Science Association
The American Political Science Association (APSA), founded in 1903, is the leading professional organization for the study of political science and serves more than 15,000 members in over 80 countries. "As part of the APSA Guide to Professional Ethics in Political Science, the APSA Committee on Professional Ethics, Rights, and Freedoms becomes involved in cases involving the human rights of scholars in other countries brought to its attention by reputable sources. It will respond to cases of human rights violations involving scholars whose fields correspond to those subsumed under the phrase 'political science' in the United States. It will also take up cases that do not directly involve political scientists but have broad implications for all social scientists. The standard used in determining which case to pursue is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the two accompanying covenants." Learn more
American Society of Plant Biologists
"The American Society of Plant Biologists was founded in 1924 to promote the growth and development of plant biology, to encourage and publish research in plant biology, and to promote the interests and growth of plant scientists in general. Over the decades the Society has evolved and expanded to provide a forum for molecular and cellular biology as well as to serve the basic interests of plant science. It publishes Plant Physiology and The Plant Cell. ASPB members span six continents, and its members work in such diverse areas as academia, government laboratories, and industrial and commercial environments. The Society also has a large student membership. ASPB plays a key role in uniting the international plant science disciplines." Learn more
American Sociological Association
As part of its mission as the national association for sociologists with more than 13,000 U.S. and international members, the American Sociological Association (ASA) has spoken often and taken significant actions in defense of sociologists and other scholars persecuted for their beliefs or scholarly activities. The ASA takes the celebration of its centenary (1905-2005) as an opportunity to reiterate its strongest support for the basic civil and political freedoms of peoples of all nations as articulated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Learn more
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