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2020

AAAS’ SRHRL Tracks Human Rights During Pandemic
(AAAS) September 23, 2020

2019 Graduate Student Essay Winner Published by American Psychological Association
(APA) February 2020

2019

Fight Against Sexual Exploitation Explored at Science and Human Rights Conference
(AAAS) November 15, 2019

Fighting Against Land Development Requires Collaboration, Local Expertise and Facts
(AAAS) November 14, 2019

AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition Steps into Its Second Decade
(AAAS) October 29, 2019

2018

AAAS Moves Implementation of the Right to Science Forward
(AAAS) October 17, 2018

SEA Change Seeks Culture Shift for Diverse Scientific Enterprise
(AAAS) August 3, 2018

Science and Human Rights Coalition Announces 2018 Student Competition Winners
(AAAS) June 13, 2018

Integrating Human Rights with STEM Education Inspires Students
(AAAS) February 5, 2018

2017

Human Rights Coalition Deepens Understanding of the Right to Science
(AAAS) August 8, 2017

Science and Human Rights Coalition Announces Inaugural Student Digital Media Competition Winner
(AAAS) June 27, 2017

Science and Human Rights Coalition Announces 2017 Student Essay Competition Winners
(AAAS) June 26, 2017

Science Can Help Define and Defend the Human Right to Clean Water
(AAAS) February 3, 2017

2016

Architect Calls For Interdisciplinary Approach to Human Rights Work
(AAAS) December 7, 2016

Science, Academic Freedom, and Human Rights
(AAAS Science & Diplomacy) September 30, 2016

Scientists, Engineers Show Concern for Turkish Scientists’ Welfare
(AAAS) August 3, 2016

Science Can Ease Human Rights Effects of Climate Change
(AAAS) August 2, 2016

Science and Human Rights Coalition Announces 2016 Student Poster Competition Winners
(AAAS) June 29, 2016

Evidence-Based Research Contributes to Human Rights Work
(AAAS) April 25, 2016

2015 AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award Goes to Social Psychologist Jean Maria Arrigo
(AAAS) February 8, 2016

2015

Science and Human Rights Coalition Announces 2015 Student Poster Competition Winners
(AAAS) July 23, 2015

Science and Human Rights Coalition Announces 2015 Student Essay Competition Winners
(AAAS) June 24, 2015

AAAS Questionnaire: Most Scientists Feel Duty to Society, but Priorities Vary
(AAAS) March 4, 2015

Omid Kokabee Awarded 2014 AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award
(AAAS) February 24, 2015

Big Data and Human Rights, a New and Sometimes Awkward Relationship
(AAAS) January 28, 2015

2014

DNA Evidence Was Lifeline for Exonerated Death Row Survivor Kirk Bloodsworth
(AAAS) October 29, 2014

Coalition Members Take Action for Disability Rights
(AAAS) September 22, 2014

AAAS Creates Fund in Memory of Physicist Andrew M. Sessler
(AAAS) August 5, 2014

Forensics, Internet Freedom Cited as Key Junctions for Science and Human Rights
(AAAS) July 28, 2014

Science and Human Rights Coalition Announces 2014 Student Essay Competition Winners
(AAAS) June 19, 2014

Science and Technology Could Do More to Help People With Disabilities, Experts Say
(AAAS) February 11, 2014

Consider Disability at the Outset, Tech Designers Told
(SciDev.Net) February 4, 2014

2013

Reward Scientists Working for Human Rights
(SciDev.Net) December 17, 2013

Video Series Highlights Science and Human Rights Partnerships
(AAAS) December 13, 2013

AAAS Report Helps Define "Right to Science" for UN Treaty
(AAAS) October 4, 2013

The AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition Meeting: a Brief Report
(APS) Fall 2013

Scientific Freedom and Cross-Border Cooperation Underlie Core Human Right
(AAAS) July 30, 2013

A Human Right to Science
(Science) June 14, 2013

The AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition
(APS) March 9, 2013

Protecting Children’s Rights
(C&EN) March 4, 2013

AAAS Forum Discusses the Human Rights of Children in Scientific Research
(AAAS) March 1, 2013

2012

Amnesty International, AAAS Host Letter-Writing Campaign on Behalf of Imprisoned Scientists
(AAAS) December 28, 2012

Scientists Should Work to Maintain Internet as a Tool for Freedom, Diplomat Says
(AAAS) October 24, 2012

Right to science?
(UDaily) October 2, 2012

Accessing science as a human right to development
(SciDev.Net) September 26, 2012

Freedom and Engineering for All
(Mechanical Engineering) September, 2012

Engineering for Human Rights
(YouTube by Engineering for Change) June 19, 2012

Engineers Need Good Planning to Effectively Address Developing World Problems
(AAAS) May 14, 2012

The rights of indigenous people take center stage at AAAS meeting
(APA) May 2012

Where Human Rights and Engineering Meet
(ASME) March 2012

AAAS Coalition Explores Perspectives of Indigenous Communities on Climate Change
(AAAS) February 6, 2012

2011

Research Needed to Improve Forensics for Criminal Investigations, Experts Say at AAAS
(AAAS News) July 26, 2011

Human rights shift under fire
(Nature) July 27, 2011

AAAS Testimony: Science is “Vital” to Human Rights
(Science) November 25, 2011

At AAAS Coalition Meeting, Scientists and Human Rights Practitioners Build Stronger Working Relationships
(AAAS News) January 28, 2011

Researchers Tell AAAS Coalition of Science Impact—and Extensive Human Rights Needs—in Post-Quake Haiti
(AAAS News) January 27, 2011

AAAS Workshop Trains Researchers to Promote Science as a Human Right
(AAAS News) January 3, 2011

2010

AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition Explores Right to Access Life-Saving Medicines
(AAAS News) August 3, 2010

AAAS Marries Science and Human Rights
(Pharmaceutical Technology Sourcing and Management) Jun 9, 2010

ASA and AAAS: Improving Human Rights Through Science
(ASA Footnotes) April 2010

Science-Rights Coalition Has Global Impact in First Year
(Science) February 25, 2010

2009

Human Rights and Science
(Chemical & Engineering News) August 24, 2009

Richard Pierre Claude, Author and Activist, Honored by AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition
(AAAS News Release) August 4, 2009

S&T Associations Showing “Extraordinary” Support for AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition
(AAAS News Release) July 7, 2009

Statisticians Seen, Heard at Human Rights Coalition
(Amstat News) April 2009

Advancing Human Rights Through Science
(Science) April 10, 2009

Spotlight: AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition
(AOTF Newsletter) April 2009

AAAS Launches New Coalition Engaging Scientists in Human Rights
(AAAS News Release) February 11, 2009

Science Serving Human Rights
(ASA Footnotes) January 2009

New Coalition to Champion Human Right to Science
(SciDev.net) January 27, 2009

Scientists Come Out for Human Rights
(The Nation) January 27, 2009

Wissenschaft und Menschenrechte
(German Public Radio) January 16, 2009

2008

Geography and Human Rights
(AAG Newsletter) September 2008

AAAS Leads Planning for a Science and Human Rights Coalition
(AAAS) April 2, 2008

AAAS Symposium Explores Importance of Human Rights Role for Science Societies
(AAAS) January 4, 2008