American Anthropological Association
Committee on Human Rights
The American Anthropological Association Committee for Human Rights works to stimulate informed involvement in the human rights area among professional anthropologists through publications, panels and network building. The Committee’s proposed Declaration on Anthropology and Human Rights, the white papers of its task groups on ethnic cleansing and on the human rights of women are further examples and these web pages are among the products of this effort. The Committee also works to gather information on selected, anthropologically relevant, cases of human rights abuse and to propose action in the name of the American Anthropological Association to the Association’s leadership. The committee’s briefing documents, prepared in order to brief the Association’s leadership on particular cases of human rights abuse, are one product of the external mission.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of Science: Anthropology
Activities: The AAA Committee on Human Rights conducts letterwriting campaigns, research, and event. The website also has a directory of anthropologists interested in human rights issues.
For more information, contact:
Damon Dozier
American Anthropological Association
2200 Wilson Blvd., Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22201-3357
Phone: (703) 528-1902 ext. 3008
Email: ddozier@aaanet.org
Web: www.aaanet.org/cmtes/cfhr
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
For sixty years, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) has served a distinguished and diverse membership. Its nearly 6,000 members are divided into ten sections spanning the forensic enterprise. Included among the Academy’s members are physicians, attorneys, dentists, toxicologists, physical anthropologists, document examiners, psychiatrists, physicists, engineers, criminalists, educators, and others. Representing all 50 United States, Canada, and 52 other countries worldwide, they actively practice forensic science and, in many cases, teach and conduct research in the field as well. Each section provides opportunities for professional development, personal contacts, awards, and recognition. Many sections publish periodic newsletters and mailings which keep their members abreast of activities and developments in their field.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of Science: Forensic Science
Number of Members: 6000
Activities: AAFS is committed to the promotion of education and the elevation of accuracy, precision, and specificity in the forensic sciences via the Journal of Forensic Sciences, newsletters, its annual scientific meeting, the conduct of seminars and meetings, and the initiation of actions and reactions to various issues of concern. For its members and affiliates, AAFS provides placement services as well as scientific reference studies.
For more information, contact:
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
410 North 21st Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80904
Phone: 719-636-1100
Fax: 719-636-1993
Web: http://www.aafs.org
American Association of University Professors
The American Association of University Professors’s (AAUP) purpose is to advance academic freedom and shared governance, to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, and to ensure higher education’s contribution to the common good.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: U.S. (Some Global : Belgium, Canada, China, Egypt, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, The Netherlands)
Field of Science: All
Number of Members: Current membership is about 45,000, with over 500 local campus chapters and 40 state organizations
Activities: AAUP deals with academic freedom issues and monitors academic freedom issues on university and college campuses.
For more information, contact:
American Association of University Professors
1012 Fourteenth Street, NW, Suite #500
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202-737-5900
Fax: 202-737-5526
Web: http://www.aaup.org
American Association of University Women
Since 1881 the American Association of University Women has been the nation’s leading voice promoting education and equity for women and girls.
AAUW is composed of three corporations:
- The Association with more than 100,000 members, 1,300 branches, and 550 college/university institution partners nationwide advocates education and equity. Since its founding in 1881, members have examined and taken positions on the fundamental issues of the day educational, social, economic, and political. Our commitment to our mission is reflected in our public policy efforts, programs, Leadership and Training Institute, and diversity initiatives. AAUW’s work extends globally through its international connections and membership in the International Federation of University Women.
- The AAUW Educational Foundation is the world’s largest source of funding exclusively for graduate women. Each year the Foundation provides about $4 million in fellowships, grants, and awards for outstanding women around the globe and for community action projects. The Foundation also funds pioneering research on women, girls, and education, and international symposia.
- The AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund is the nation’s largest legal fund focused solely on sex discrimination in higher education. The Legal Advocacy Fund provides funds and a support system for women seeking judicial redress for sex discrimination in higher education.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: U.S. (some global)
Field of Science: All
Number of Members: 100,000
Activities: American Association of University Women provides funds to advance education, research, and self-development for women and to foster equity and positive societal change.
For more information, contact:
American Association of University Women
1111 Sixteenth St. N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 800-326-AAUW(2289) or 202-785-7700
Fax: 202-872-1425
Email: helpline@aauw.org
Web: http://www.aauw.org
American Chemical Society
The ACS International Activities Subcommittee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights monitors the world for violations of the human rights of scientists and joins with other societies in petitioning the governments of the countries where such violations take place to make correction. In recent years, the Subcommittee has worked on behalf of scientists in Bulgaria, Cuba, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Mexico, Myanmar, Russia, Sudan and Vietnam, among others.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of Science: Chemistry
Number of Members: Current membership of ACS is 163,000 (10% international)
Activities: ACS organizes campaigns on behalf of persecuted scientists, primarily chemists, worldwide.
For more information, contact:
American Chemical Society International Activities
1155 Sixteenth St., NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-872-4600
Email: intlacts@acs.org
Web: ACSIA
American Educational Research Association
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) is a professional membership organization that strives to improve the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education. AERA offers a comprehensive program of scholarly publications, training, fellowships, and meetings to advance educational research, to disseminate knowledge, and to improve the capacity of the profession to enhance the public good.
AERA has two special interest groups that deal with human rights: Critical Educators for Social Justice, whose purpose is to teach, promote, and implement the principles of critical pedagogy in order to establish an educational movement grounded in the struggle for social and environmental justice, human rights and economic democracy and the Peace Education, whose purpose is to promote dialogue and disseminate research on peace-related issues including work in the areas of conflict, conflict resolution, human rights, social justice, violence, and prejudice.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of Science: Education, Psychology, Statistics, Sociology, History, Economics, Philosophy, Anthropology, and Political Science.
Number of Members: 25,000
Activities: CESJ is to promote communication and collaboration among critical educators and researchers working in public schools, universities and community education programs. PE promotes dialogue and disseminate research on peace-related issues including work in the areas of conflict, conflict resolution, human rights, social justice, violence, bullying, and prejudice.
For more information, contact:
Critical Educators for Social Justice Special Interest Group
Margarita I. Berta-Avila, 2007-2009
California State University, Sacramento, CA, 95831
Phone: 916-278-4395
Email: bamargie@csus.edu
Web: http://www.aeracesjsig.org/
American Mathematical Society
Committee on Human Rights
Founded in 1888 to further mathematical research and scholarship, the American Mathematical Society fulfills its mission through programs and services that promote mathematical research and its uses, strengthen mathematical education, and foster awareness and appreciation of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and to everyday life. The Society has over 28,000 individual members and 550 institutional members in the United States and around the world. Programs and services for AMS members and the mathematical community include professional programs such as meetings and conferences, surveys, employment services; publications including Mathematical Reviews (a database of nearly 2 million items covering over 60 years of mathematics literature), journals, and over 3,000 books in print; support for Young Scholars Programs and the Mathematical Moments program of the Public Awareness Office; resources such as MR Lookup for researchers and authors; and a Washington office that connects the mathematical community with the broader scientific community and with decision makers who determine science funding. The AMS headquarters is located in Providence, Rhode Island, and the Society has offices also in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Washington D.C.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of Science: Mathematics
Number of Members: 30,000
Activities: American Mathematical Society conducts letterwriting campaigns
For more information, contact:
American Mathematical Society
201 Charles Street
Providence, RI 02904-2294, U.S.A.
Phone: 401-455-4000
Fax: 401-331-3842
Email: ams@ams.org
Web: www.ams.org
The American Physical Society
Committee on International Freedom of Scientists
The American Physical Society’s Committee on International Freedom of Scientists (CIFS) is a standing committee of the American Physical Society. Article III-B-2 of the Society’s bylaws states that CIFS shall be responsible for monitoring concerns regarding human rights for scientists throughout the world. It shall apprise the President, the Executive Board and Council of problems encountered by scientists in the pursuit of their scientific interests or in effecting satisfactory communication with other scientists. CIFS sponsors petitions on behalf of scientists whose rights have been violated and is usually joined in this effort by the New York-based Committee of Concerned Scientists and the Committee on the Human Rights of Scientists of the New York Academy of Sciences. Signature drives are conducted at the American Physical Society’s March and April meetings as well as on the world wide web. If there are petitions currently on the world wide web they can be found at http://www.aps.org/intaff/petition/ Please visit this site to sign on or read the press release about the most recent petition drive.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of science: Physics
Number of Members: 43,000
Activities: The American Physical Society conducts a variety of activities, including: symposia, public events, workshops, letter writing, joint projects with other societies, letterwriting campaigns, human rights publications, press releases, press events, research, and educational programs.
For more information, contact:
Amy Flatten
Director of International Affairs
The American Physical Society
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740-3844
Phone: 301-209-3236
Email: flatten@aps.org
Web: www.aps.org
American Political Science Association
Human Rights Section
The Committee on Professional Ethics, Rights and Freedoms was established to encourage scholarship and facilitate exchange of data and research findings on all components of human rights (e.g., civil, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental), their relationship, determinants and consequences of human rights policies, structure and influence of human rights organizations, development, implementation, and impact on international conventions, and changes in the international human rights regime.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of science: Political Science
Number of Members: 15,000
For more information, contact:
Jeff Biggs, Ph.D.
American Political Science Association
1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
ph: (202) 483-2512
Email
American Psychological Association
Committee on International Relations in Psychology
Founded in 1944 to advise APA on the rehabilitation of psychological laboratories and libraries in post-World War II Europe, the Committee on International Relations in Psychology (CIRP) is responsible for developing contact between psychologists in the United States and their colleagues abroad. The Committee’s mission includes encouraging and supporting the free circulation of psychologists and of psychological ideas and information and monitoring within the international context and take action in cases involving infringements of the rights of psychologist or abuse of psychological knowledge and techniques wherever these may occur, consistent with APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and with the Resolution Concerning Professional Ethics in Psychology (1976) of the International Union of Psychological Science, and applying psychological knowledge to the alleviation of psychological suffering attendant upon abuses of human rights. CIRP is also responsible for naming the annual recipient of the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology, and oversees nominations for the International Humanitarian Award.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of science: Psychology
Number of Members: 155,000
Activities: American Psychological Association conducts a variety of activities, including symposia and letterwriting campaigns
For more information, contact:
Merry Bullock, PhD
Senior Director, Office of International Affairs
American Psychological Association
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Email: mbullock@apa.org
Web: http://www.apa.org/international/cirp/
American Statistical Association
Committee on Scientific Freedom & Human Rights
The ASA Committee on Scientific Freedom & Human Rights concerns itself with violations of and threats to the scientific freedom and human rights of statisticians and other scientists throughout the world. The Committee also assists scientific societies on statistical questions relating to data on human rights.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of science: Statistics
Number of Members:
Activities: The ASA Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights conducts letterwriting campaigns, events and symposia, and research.
For more information, contact:
ASA Committee on Scientific Freedom & Human Rights
c/o: Dr. Francoise M. Seillier-Moiseiwitsch
UNC Biostatistics
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7400
Phone: 919-966-7273
Email: seillier@bios.unc.edu
Web: http://www.amstat.org/Comm/CS06/
Association of American Geographers
The Ethics, Justice and Human Rights Specialty Group brings together geographers interested in the three categories of linked issues with a view of fostering research, improving teaching, and helping our discipline address its own ethical, justice and rights issues. It supports and encourages inclusive and informed discussion throughout the discipline on normative concerns including applied, theoretical, and professional. In equal measure and in combination, it strives to sustain an interest in, and teaching/research on, human rights issues at all scales of analysis, in all parts of the world.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of science: Geography
Number of Members: 80
Activities: Ethics, Justice and Human Rights Specialty Group conducts a variety of activities, including: symposia, workshops, research, and educational programs.
For more information, contact:
Monica W. Varsanyi, Chair
Arizona State University School of Justice and Social Inquiry
PO Box 870403 Tempe AZ 85287-0403
Email: monica.varsanyi@asu.edu
Phone: 480-727-8270
Fax: 480-965-9199
Website : http://www.personal.ecu.edu/popkee/
Center for Victims of Torture
The Minnesota-based Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded in 1985. The first organization of its kind in the United States and the third in the world, CVT has pioneered a comprehensive assessment and care program that is unique in the U.S. CVT exists to heal the wounds of government-sponsored torture on individuals, their families, and communities and to stop its practice. We work locally, nationally and internationally to build healing communities where torture survivors feel welcomed, protected and healed.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of science: Mental health, torture treatment
Activities: CVT provides direct medical and psychological services to torture survivors, trains health education, and health services professionals who work with torture survivors and refugees, conducts research on the effects of torture and best practices of torture treatment, and advocates for public policy initiatives domestically and international that will heal survivors and put an end to torture worldwide.
For more information, contact:
Minneapolis Healing Center
717 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-436-4800
Fax: 612-436-2600
St. Paul Administration
2356 University Avenue West, Suite 430
St. Paul, MN 55114
Phone: 612-436-4800
Fax: 612-436-2606
Washington, D.C. Office
426 C Street, N.E.
Washington, DC 20002
Phone: 202-548-0116
Fax: 202-548-0118
Email: cvt@cvt.org
Committee of 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.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of science: All
Number of Members:
Activities: The Committee of Concerned Scientists conducts letterwriting campaigns and petition drives. The CCS also provides material assistance to those who have been dismissed from professional employment and to the families of those jailed.
For more information, contact:
C/O Sophie Cook, Executive Director
400 East 85th St., Apt. 10K
New York, NY 10028
Email: sophiecook@earthlink.net
Web: http://www.libertynet.org/ccs/
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) is a public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others concerned about the impact of computer technology on society. We work to influence decisions regarding the development and use of computers because those decisions have far-reaching consequences and reflect our basic values and priorities. As technical experts, CPSR members provide the public and policymakers with realistic assessments of the power, promise, and limitations of computer technology. As concerned citizens, we direct public attention to critical choices concerning the applications of computing and how those choices affect society.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of Science: Computer Sciences
Activities: CPSR conducts a variety of activities, including: producing publications and conducting project areas in such areas as cyber-rights, computers in education, intellectual property, and ethics.
For more information, contact:
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
PO Box 20046
Stanford, CA 94309-0046
Phone: (650) 989-1294
Email: cpsr(a)cpsr.org
Web: http://www.cpsr.org/
Engineers Without Borders-UK
Engineers Without Borders-UK is is a not-for-profit organization driven by the inequalities that exist both within and between countries and the knowledge that technology can be a tool for people to escape from the cycle of poverty. EWB has three main aims: (1) To educate students about development work, in order to build capacity in the development sector, and to change the attitudes of coming generations. (2) To send students on placements overseas in order to supply partner NGOs with technically competent help and to give the student experience of development work. (3)To undertake research at British universities to solve technical problems in the developing world, and to build engineering capacity overseas and share technical knowledge.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of science: Engineering
Number of Members:
Activities: Engineers Without Borders provides technical assistance, undertakes development projects, and educates members about appropriate technology and development.
For more information, contact:
Engineers Without Borders UK
c/o The Humanitarian Centre
Fenner’s Gresham Road
Cambridge CB1 2ES
United Kingdom
Web: http://www.ewb-uk.org/
Fax: +44 (0)870 123 1905
International Student/Young Pugwash (IS/YP)
International Student/Young Pugwash (IS/YP) began in 1978, when a student had the opportunity to attend the annual Pugwash Conference in Bulgaria. Inspired by the unique international dialogue of the Pugwash Conference, this young participant saw a need to bring together young people and professionals in order to examine and discuss critical global issues. As a result, in 1979 Student/Young Pugwash organizations were founded in the USA and Canada. Since that time, national Student/Young Pugwash groups have been initiated in over 20 countries, coordinating a variety of activities on science and world affairs. In some cases, members of Pugwash have been directly involved in the creation and development of national Student/Young Pugwash groups.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of science: All
Number of Members: There are over 20 national groups
Activities: Like Pugwash, IS/YP organizes conferences and events of interest
For more information, contact:
USA Group
815 15th St, NW #814
Washington DC 20005 USA
Phone: 202-393-6555
Fax: 202-393-6550
Email: usa@student-pugwash.org or spusa@spusa.org
Web: http://www.student-pugwash.org/
International Studies Association: Human Rights Section
The purpose of HR-ISA will be to encourage multidisciplinary scholarship and teaching in the area of human rights. This includes those in the disciplines of political science, law, history, philosophy, economics, sociology, anthropology, and other related fields. It will foster discussion and other interaction between members of the ISA as well as those outside of the ISA with view toward enhancing academic research, policy development and teaching in the broad and varied area of human rights and related issues.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of science: Political science, economics, sociology, anthropology
Number of Members:
For more information, contact:
Chandra Lekha Sriram
Chair in Human Rights and
Director, Centre on Human Rights in Conflict
School of Law
University of East London
Duncan House
Stratford High Street
London E15 2JB
Phone: +44 (0)20 8223 3361
Fax: +44 (0)20 8223 2927
Email: c.sriram@uel.ac.uk
Web: http://web.mac.com/vicfalls/HR-ISA/HR-ISA.html
Johns Hopkins University Center For Public Health And Human Rights
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has established the Center for Public Health and Human Rights to examine the impact of human rights violations on the general health of populations. The Center’s researchers will apply epidemiologic practices and public health tools as a new approach to understanding and measuring the scope of human rights violations. The Center for Public Health and Human Rights is funded by a grant from the Development Fund for the Open Society Institute.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of science: Public Health
Activities: Research, training
For more information, contact:
Andrea Wirtz
Center for Public Health and Human Rights (CPHHR)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
615 N. Wolfe Street, Room E7144
Baltimore, MD 21205
Email: awirtz@jhsph.edu
Phone: 410-502-0800
Fax: 410-614-8371
Web: http://www.jhsph.edu/humanrights/index.html
Mental Health Workers without Borders
Mental Health Workers without Borders is an international, not-for profit, non-governmental network of activist psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, counselors, and other mental health workers. As individuals and as an organization, we share knowledge and ideas about psychosocial assistance for natural and man-made disasters, mental health and human rights, and treatment and psychosocial rehabilitation for people with severe mental illness. Our primary focus is primarily, although not solely, on the needs of developing countries. MHWWB encourages family- and community-based, psychosocial approaches to mental health problems, respectful of cultural variation, drawing on local resources and healing traditions, and emphasizing community revitalization and empowerment as well as individual treatment.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of science: Psychology, Social Work, Mental Health
Activities: NHWWB conducts general networking and sharing of best practices on human rights and humanitarian affairs. They also publish manuals, such as Coping With Disaster, a manual for dealing with refugees, victims of chronic political violence, women and disasters, and other topics and A Guide for Humanitarian, Health Care, and Human Rights Workers: Caring for Others, Caring for Yourself, is now available. The manual is intended for staff (paid or volunteer) of humanitarian aid, health care, and human rights organizations and for others (e.g., journalists, development workers) whose work brings them in constant contact with survivors of disasters but whose work is not primarily focused on dealing with the direct effects of emotional traumatization.
For more information, contact:
Mental Health Workers Without Borders
c/o Martin Gittelman
100 W. 94th Street
New York, NY 10025
Email: mhwwb@mhwwb.org
Web: http://mhwwb.org/
National Academies of Science
Committee on Human Rights
The Committee on Human Rights was created in 1976 in response to concern by members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) about widespread abuses of human rights, particularly those of their scientific colleagues. In 1994, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) joined the NAS as full sponsors of the committee. The committee is composed of members drawn from the membership of the three institutions. The committee has the active support of more than 1,700 members of the NAS, NAE, and IOM, who assist it as “correspondents” in its human rights work by writing appeals in behalf of and letters of encouragement to imprisoned colleagues. The committee is financially supported by the NAS, NAE, and IOM, several private foundations, and contributions from private donors.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of Science: All
Number of Members: 1,700
Activities: The NAS Human Rights Committee conducts private inquiries, appeals to governments, and provides moral support to prisoners and their families. The Committe also conducts workshops, symposia and occasional missions of inquiry.
For more information, contact:
Committee on Human Rights
The National Academies
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202-334-3043
Fax: 202-334-2225
Email: chr@nas.edu
Network of Concerned Historians
The Network of Concerned Historians (NCH) was established October 1995 and serves to provide a bridge between international human rights organizations campaigning for censored or persecuted historians (and others concerned with the past) and the global community of historians.
Profile
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of Science: Historians:
Activities: NCH conducts letterwriting campaigns, news sharing, and research.
For more information, contact:
Dr. A. De Baets
History Department, University of Groningen
P.O. Box 716
9700 AS Groningen
The Netherlands.
Fax: (31.50) 363.72.53
Email: antoondebaets@concernedhistorians.org
Network for Education and Academic Rights
The Network for Education and Academic Rights (NEAR) is a membership-based, non-governmental organization which facilitates international collaboration between organization active in issues of academic freedom and educational rights, and committed to promoting an understanding of, and respect for, the values enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. NEAR was launched at the UNESCO offices in Paris on 18-19 June 2001. The UNESCO-sponsored event brought together representatives from over twenty human rights organizations, educational associations and professional bodies to establish a clearing house of information on academic freedom and education rights and facilitate joint action. NEAR receives reports of academic rights violations from its member organizations and credible media sources which are posted as alerts on the NEAR website. Membership is open to independent, non-governmental organizations that have interests that promote academic freedom and/or human rights in education.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of Science: All
Activities: NEAR conducts letterwriting campaigns and serves as a clearinghouse of information on academic freedom violations
For more information, contact:
John Akker, Director
London South Bank University
90 London Road SE1 9LN
London UK
Phone: +44 (0)207 021 0880
Fax: +44 (0)207 021 0881
E mail: contact@nearinternational.org
Web: http://www.nearinternational.org
New York Academy of Sciences
The Committee on Human Rights of Scientists
The Committee on Human Rights of Scientists of the New York Academy of Sciences was formed in 1978 to pursue the advancement of the basic human rights of our colleagues throughout the world. The Committee intervenes in cases where scientists, engineers, health professionals and educators are detained, imprisoned, exiled, murdered, “disappeared,” or deprived of the rights to pursue science, communicate their findings with their peers and the general public, and travel freely in accordance with established policies of The International Council for Science.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of science: All
Number of Members: 30,000
Activities: New York Academy of Sciences conducts a variety of activities, including: letterwriting campaigns, press releases, and press events.
For more information, contact:
Svetlana Stone-Wachtel
7 World Trade Center
250 Greenwich St, 40th Floor
New York, NY 10007-2157
Phone: 212-298-8645
Email: humanrights@nyas.org
Web: http://www.nyas.org/programs/human/human.asp
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
The purpose of the Pugwash Conferences is to bring together, from around the world, influential scholars and public figures concerned with reducing the danger of armed conflict and seeking cooperative solutions for global problems. Meeting in private as individuals, rather than as representatives of governments or institutions, Pugwash participants exchange views and explore alternative approaches to arms control and tension reduction with a combination of candor, continuity, and flexibility seldom attained in official East-West and North-South discussions and negotiations. Yet, because of the stature of many of the Pugwash participants in their own countries (as, for example, science and arms-control advisers to governments, key figures in academies of science and universities, and former and future holders of high government office), insights from Pugwash discussions tend to penetrate quickly to the appropriate levels of official policy-making.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of science: All
Number of Members: Pugwash has a 28-person Council, 4 regional offices, and 40 national groups
Activities: Pugwash primarily organizes conferences and workshops
For more information, contact:
Jeffrey Boutwell
1111 19th St., NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-478-3440
Email: pugwashdc@aol.com
Web: http://www.pugwash.org
Scholars at Risk Network
Based at the University of Chicago, the Scholars at Risk Network works to promote academic freedom and defend the human rights of scholars worldwide. Its main activity is to arrange temporary visits by scholars threatened in their home country/region to universities and colleges in safe locales. Scholars from any country and any discipline may qualify. Universities and colleges in any country are invited to serve as hosts for temporary visitors. Based in New York, IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund provides partial fellowships to support temporary visits by threatened scholars to universities and colleges in safe locales. Scholars at Risk works with the SRF to identify suitable fellowship candidates and host institutions.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of science: All
Number of Members: institutional members (70+)
Activities: In addition to placing scholars, the Scholars at Risk Network conducts a variety of activities, including: symposia, public events, and letterwriting campaigns.
For more information, contact:
Scholars at Risk Network
c/o New York University
194 Mercer St., Room 410
New York, NY 10012
Phone: 212-998-2179
Fax: 212-995-4402
Email: scholarsatrisk@nyu.edu
Web: http://scholarsatrisk.nyu.edu/
Sociologists Without Borders
Sociologists without Borders/Socologos Sin Fronteras (SSF) was founded in Spain in 2001, and in the United States in 2002, as a transnational association of sociologists committed to the following principles: that all people have equal rights to political freedoms and legal protections, to socioeconomic security, to self-determination, and to their personality. That is, old or young, regardless of where they live, their faith, and whether they are male or female, gay or straight, and regardless of their skin color they have the same universal rights, including their rights to their own particular cultures. SSF also promotes an understanding that collective goods, including a sustainable environment, cannot be privatized.
Sociologists Without Borders is dedicated to advancing human rights as social scientists, and has played important roles in the American Sociological Association. The group has been invited to present at the Fall UNESCO meetings in Barcelona and regularly presents at US sociology meetings.
Profile:
Geographic Focus: Global
Field of science: Sociology/Social Science
For more information, contact:
Judith Blau
Deparment of Sociology
University of North Carolina
Email: jrblau@email.unc.edu