AAAS Science and Human Rights Program

Resources for Scientific Society Action on Human Rights

The following is a compilation of links to assist scientific societies in their human rights activities. If you know of a valuable resource, please send the information to Josh Robbins.

Databases, Search Engines, Journals, and Virtual Libraries:

• Meta Search Engine of the University of Minnesota This site allows you to search multiple human rights sites.
• Virtual Library International Human Rights Web Sites International, Reginal & National Human Rights Protection Mechanisms, Law & Policy Maintained by the Human Rights Research and Education Centre of the University of Ottawa, this site has a great collection of links that have been organized in useful categories.
• Human Rights Library Organized by the University of Minnesota, this site has more than 10, 400 human rights related documents.
  

Organizations, Networks, and Projects:

• Committee for Concerned Scientists: The Committee of Concerned Scientists is an independent organization of scientists, physicians and engineers dedicated to the protection and advancement of the human rights and scientific freedom of colleagues throughout the world.
• Scholars at Risk Network: Scholars at Risk is an international network of universities and colleges that promotes academic freedom and defends the human rights of scholars and their communities worldwide.
• The Social Research Endangered Scholars Worldwide Project publishes the names of endangered and imprisoned scholars around the globe, providing sources of further information about their cases and urging readers to send letters on their behalf to responsible officials (sample letters and contact addresses are provided).

Advice and Tips:

• Letterwriting tools by Human Rights USA, includes contact information for embassies and foreign heads of state.
• Advocacy Tips A set of links to online advocacy resources maintained by IGC.

Visas:

• International Visitors Office (IVO) of the National Academies of Science. The site provides useful information related to visas, including an online questionnaire used to collect information on scientific mobility and the free flow of scientists, statistics on visas, and a section dedicated to answering questions for those organizing international meetings in the United States.