AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program

Truth and Reconciliation: Examining Human Rights Violations in South Africa's Health Care Sector

In 1996, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (TRC) invited the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to participate in their evaluation of human rights violations in the health care sector. AAAS assembled a consultative team of U.S. based non-governmental organizations active in health and human rights to help frame questions for TRC health sector hearings, make a submission to the hearings, and to produce recommendations on overcoming the legacy of apartheid-era human rights abuses.

This web site, administered by AAAS, exists to provide information and resources relating to AAAS' project of assistance to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's examination of health care sector human rights abuses in South Africa.

For more information about the activities of AAAS in support of this endeavor, contact: 

AAAS  Science & Human Rights Program 
1200 New York Avenue, NW 
Washington, DC 20005 
Phone: 202/326-6790 
Fax: 202/289-4950 

Email: shrp@aaas.org