AAAS Center for Scientific Responsibility and Justice

Doctoral candidate, Mehrgol Tiv, was the 2019 graduate student winner of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition's Student Essay Competition. Her essay, "AI for Social Good," is now available through the American Psychological Association.

Erin Kimmerle, a forensic anthropologist who worked to account for dozens of children buried at a notorious Florida reform school, will receive the Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award.

Global estimates of modern slavery that include those living in forced marriage or sexual exploitation are crucial in informing policy and uncovering overlooked groups of victims.

Local community members may not have the letters “Ph.D.” after their names, but their expertise is essential for understanding local natural resources, how they are used and how they may be harmed by outside development.

The AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition marked the 10^th anniversary of the founding of a coalition whose collaborations have demonstrated “multiple ways in which science and human rights intersect.”

AAAS examines human rights, ethical and legal issues emerging from the use of facial recognition technology.

"AAAS now plans to transform the pilot conference into three more opioid-focused seminars over the next year."

AAAS issues guidelines and implementing tools to inform human rights, aid groups, researchers and volunteers how best to use of location-based data in crisis zones.

Science may not be able to stop some of the world’s mass atrocities, but it can help expose the perpetrators.

Don’t use Gmail. Don’t keep recordings on your cell phone. In fact, if you’re in a foreign country, leave your cell phone behind and buy a burner phone at a market instead.

Unlike most other human rights, the right to science has never been legally defined and is often ignored in practice by the governments bound to implement it. An essential first step toward giving life to the right to science is for the UN to define it.

Science centers and museums help reverse mistrust in science by connecting people with scientists and helping expand their understanding of science, according to a global talk.

AAAS addresses how best to put the international benefits of the right to science to work across the globe in testimony before the United Nations in Geneva.

Early detection of autism in at-risk children can open the door to intensive training by therapists and parents, interventions that can significantly improve adaptive behaviors and skills, according to a trio of multidisciplinary researchers at an AAAS presentation.

Article from Science discusses the SRHRL Program's recent work with emerging technologies in forensic science in Colombia and Guatemala (Science).

Scientists Use Emerging Tools to Gather Evidence, Assist Human Rights Groups

Human rights researchers are seeking new ways to establish facts, creating new opportunities for collaboration between researchers, scientists, and academics (OpenGlobalRights).

Human rights organizations are now able to tap the scientific knowledge of a forensic anthropologist and nine other scientists, engineers and health professionals in real-time, thanks to a new service from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

In a March 26 letter to Justice Department Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, AAAS CEO Rush Holt said some of the new measures constitute much-needed and welcome changes relating to the testimony or statements examiners are permitted to offer in latent finger print analyses.

The design of cities, buildings and rooms can affect humans on a neurological level, said experts during a discussion at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington on March 15.

AAAS director looks to the day when science is an overarching framework that drives scientific knowledge, understanding and the policies it informs.

Marc Edwards, a civil and environmental engineer whose team documented lead contamination in the water supply of Flint, Mich., has been awarded the 2018 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

A smart phone application to de-escalate tensions during traffic stops, a voting machine to give the disabled an accessible way to cast a ballot and a community-based research project to test the impact of mining on the Hopi Navajo Reservation’s groundwater provide snapshots of practicing science through the lens of human rights, presentations at an American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting showed.