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SHRP promotes Scientists for Human Rights through the Science and Human
Rights Coalition – a network of professional and academic scientific associations
and institutions engaged in human rights – and through initiatives that provide
individual scientists with opportunities to contribute to the important work
of the human rights community. SHRP is engaging scientists in human rights with
the following objectives:
- To expand the substantive and technical expertise scientists contribute
to the efforts of the human rights community towards securing the protection,
enforcement, and fulfillment of human rights;
- To engage new sectors and larger numbers of scientists and to identify new,
practical, and multidisciplinary applications of science that can be used
to accomplish human rights ends;
- To establish new and enduring partnerships and joint initiatives between
the scientific and human rights communities aimed at tackling emerging human
rights issues; and
- To work with scientific and professional societies at expanding the number
of working groups or sections devoted to human rights in order to strengthen
advocacy on behalf of colleagues at risk and on human rights issues more broadly.
As a program of AAAS, SHRP serves and enjoys access to 262 affiliated scientific
societies and academies. In 2005, SHRP brought together scientific and professional
associations with human rights sections or working groups to lay the groundwork
for a coalition devoted to science and human rights. In 2007, the Science and
Human Rights Coalition began organizing a series of planning meetings to prepare
for a general membership meeting in 2008. The Coalition is envisioned to:
- Support efforts to establish human rights programs within more scientific
societies;
- Create a forum where new and cross-disciplinary applications of science
to human rights challenges can be incubated and explored;
- Build a knowledge base within the human rights community about what science
and scientists can contribute to the realization of human rights;
- Establish a human rights agenda across scientific societies that incorporates
this influential sector’s voice in human rights advocacy on behalf of colleagues
at risk and human rights more generally.
SHRP is developing several initiatives to encourage scientists to tackle human rights-specific challenges and support those who are already engaged in this work, demonstrating in the process that the human rights field is a rich and rewarding terrain for scientific inquiry and contribution.
SHRP is currently engaged in developing the following initiatives:
On-call Scientists
Science and Human Rights
Fellows
Graduate Fellowships
Science and Human Rights Prize
(page updated
10/29/2008)
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