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Publications Index

Below is an index of articles, books, journals, reports and handbooks referenced in the AAAS Science and Human Rights Newsletter, beginning in 2008. All publications relate in one way or another to science and human rights.

A Human Rights Network Influences Countries’ Torture Policies (2009), Christopher J. Fariss and Keith E. Schnakenberg

Applying Human Rights in Practice (2009), German Ministry for Economic Cooperation & Development

Articles, Research and Resources in Psychology: Detainee Interrogations, Psychologists and Other Health Care Professionals, Kenneth Pope

Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice: Challenges for Empirical Research (2007), Hugo van der Merwe, Victoria Baxter, and Audrey Chapman (eds)

Auditing Economic Policy in the Light of Obligations on Economic and Social Rights (2008), Radhika Balakrishnan and Diane Elson

Challenges to the Human Rights of People with Intellectual Disabilities (2008), Frances Owen and Doroth Griffiths (eds)

Children’s Bioethics:The International Biopolitical Discourse on Harmful Traditional Practices and the Right of the Child to Cultural Identity (2009), Maya Sabatello

Claiming the Millennium Development Goals: A Human Rights Approach (2008), UNOHCHR.

Climate Wrongs and Human Rights: Putting People at the Heart of Climate Change Policy (2008), Oxfam

Constitutional Rights and New Technologies: A Comparative Study (2008), Ronald E. Leenes, Bert-Jaap Koops, Paul De Hert (eds)

Does ratification of human-rights treaties have effects on population health? (2009), Alexis Palmer et al.

Epidemic Inequality: Women’s Rights and HIV/AIDS in Botswana & Swaziland (2007), Physicians for Human Rights

Eye in the Sky: Monitoring Human Rights Abuses Using Geospatial Technology (2009), Lars Bromley

Global Information Society Watch 2009 (2009), Association for Progressive Communications

Health and Human Rights (2007), Rebecca J. Cook and Charles G. Ngwena

Health and Human Rights: An International Journal (2009), Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health

Health Systems and the right to health: an assessment of 194 countries (2008), Gunilla Backman et al.

Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies (2008), Frances Stewart

How e-technologies can assist education on human and minorities’ rights (2008), Wolfgang Benedek, Mitja Zagar, Sasa Madacki (eds).

Human Right to Health Care: Nominees’ Plans Lag Behind Public Demands (2008), National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) and National Health Law Program

Human Rights and Biomedicine: Basic Documents (2008), C. Tofan

Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions (2008), Joseph Wronka

Human Rights and the WTO: The Case of Patents and Access to Medicines (2007), Holger Hestermeyer

Human Rights Education in the School Systems of Europe, Central Asia and North America: A Compendium of Good Practice (2009), OSCE/ODIHR.

Human Rights, Human Plights in a Global Village (2007), Rob Buitenweg

Inherent Human Rights: Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration (2009), Johannes Morsink

“If I look at the mass I will never act”: Psychic Numbing and Genocide (2008), Paul Slovic

Intellectual Property Rights and Access to ARV Medicines (2009), Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association

Just Health: Meeting Health Needs Fairly (2007), Norman Daniels

Manual on the Right to Water and Sanitation (2008), COHRE, AAAS, et al.

Measuring the Progressive Realization of Human Rights Obligations (2008), Sakiko Fukuda-Parr et al.

Medical ethics and torture: revising the Declaration of Tokyo (2009), Steven H Miles and Alfred M Freedman

“Military Medical Ethics – Physician First, Last, Always” (2008), George Annas

New Rights Advocacy: Changing Strategies Of Development and Human Rights NGOs (2008), Paul J. Nelson and Ellen Dorsey

New Technologies and Human Rights (2009), Th?r?se Murphy (ed.)

Practising Public Scholarship: Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy (2008), Katharyne Mitchell (ed.)

Promotion of children’s rights and prevention of child maltreatment (2009), Richard Reading et al.

Psychosocial adjustment and social reintegration of children associated with armed forces and armed groups: The state of the field and future directions (2008), Psychology Beyond Borders and Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights Public Health and Human Rights: Evidence-Based Approaches (2007), Chris Beyrer

Realizing the Right to Health (2009), Andrew Clapham and Mary Robinson (eds)

Resource Guide: Health and Human Rights (2008), Open Society Institute and Equitas

Scientists in Contemporary Wars (2008), Bengt Gustafsson

Societies Without Borders: Human Rights & the Social Sciences (2008), Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada (eds)

Statistical Methods for Human Rights (2008), Jana Asher, David Banks, and Fritz J. Scheuren (eds)

Strengthening Engagement with the International Human Rights Machinery: A Practitioner’s Guide (2008), UNDP Oslo

Surgery on Intersex Infants and Human Rights (2009), Australian Human Rights Commission

The Dirty War Index: A Public Health and Human Rights Tool for Examining and Monitoring Armed Conflict Outcomes (2008), Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks and Michael Spagat

The Human Right to a Green Future: Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice (2009), Richard Hiskes

The Human Right to Enjoy the Benefits of Scientific Progress (2009), Jessica M. Wyndham

The Human Rights Dimension of Climate Change (2009), HuriTalk Insight Series

The New Invisible College: Science for Development (2008), Caroline Wagner

The Law and Ethics of Medical Research: International Bioethics and Human Rights (2005), Aurora Plomer

The Right to Food and the Impact of Liquid Biofuels (2008) UN Food and Agriculture Organization

Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC Deliver? (2008), Audrey Chapman and Hugo van der Merwe (eds)

Using human rights to improve maternal and neo-natal health: history, connections and a proposed practical approach (2008), Sofia Gruskin et al.

We Have Human Rights: A human rights handbook for people with disabilities (2008), Harvard Project on Disability (page updated 01/20/2010)