Topic: Law and Justice

Child Health and Human Rights (1994) - Once narrowly defined as a concept that dealt with the civil and legal rights of prisoners oppressed by authoritarian governments, the term “human...

Committee on Human Rights - The Committee on Human Rights of the NAS, NAE, and IOM, created in 1976, is composed of 12 members of the three institutions and has the support of...

Conflict and Resolution in Multiethnic Societies: Proceedings of a Russian-American Workshop (2003) - In February 2000, the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) proposed to the U. S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) that the academies initiate a joint...

Corporate Approaches to Protecting Intellectual Property Implications for U. S.-Japan High-Technology Competition: Report of a Workshop (1994) - On June 4, 1993, the National Research Council’s Committee on Japan (COJ) brought together a small group of experts to help define U.S. interests in...

Global Dimensions of Intellectual Property Rights in Science and Technology (1993) - As technological developments multiply around the globe- even as the patenting of human genes comes under serious discussion- nations, companies, and...

Guatemala: Human Rights and the Myrna Mack Case (2003) - The Committee on Human Rights (CHR) has worked on the case of Guatemalan anthropologist Myrna Mack Chang since she was stabbed to death in 1990 as...

Information to Measure Compliance with International Labor Standards: Summary of a Workshop (2002) - The Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards organized this workshop to illuminate the availability and quality of information to...

Intellectual Property Rights and U.S.-Japan Competition in Biotechnology: Report of a Workshop (1991) - This report covers major insights from a one-day workshop on “Intellectual Property Rights and US-Japan Competition in Biotechnology” organized but...

International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies: Proceedings - Symposium and Fifth Biennial Meeting, Paris, May 10-11, 2001 (2003) - The International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies (the Network) held its fifth biennial meeting on May 10 and 11, 2001, at...

Monitoring International Labor Standards: Quality of Information, Summary of a Workshop (2003) - The Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards (CMILS) is charged with assembling data on international labor standards and compliance and...

Report on the Case of Dr. Saad Eddin Mohamed Ibrahim, Imprisoned Sociologist, Cairo, Egypt (2001) - This report primarily presents information gathered by two CHR delegates who traveled to Cairo, Egypt in 2001 to observe hearings in the trial of...

Science and Human Rights (1998) - The symposium on which this publication is based took place on April 27, 1987, at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington, DC during its...

Scientists and Human Rights in Chile: Report of a Delegation (1985) - This report presents information gathered by the members of a delegation that was sent to Chile by the Committee on Human Rights in March 1985. The...

Scientists and Human Rights in Guatemala: Report of a Delegation (1992) - Roughly 40 thousand people have been killed or made to "disappear" for political reasons in Guatemala during the last 30 years. Despite vows and some...

Scientists and Human Rights in Syria (2000) - In 1993, when this report was written, the Committee on Human Rights (CHR) had documented the ongoing detention of 238 scientific colleagues and...

The International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies - The International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies, created in 1993, currently includes 70 academies and scholarly...

The International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies: Proceedings - Symposium and Fifth Biennial Meeting, Paris, May 10-11, 2001 (2003) - The International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies (the Network) held its fifth biennial meeting on May 10 and 11, 2001, at...

The Myrna Mack Case: An Update (1998) - This 2003 report focuses on a CHR mission to Guatemala in fall 2002. The delegates sent by the committee were National Academies’ members Mary Jane...

U.S.-Iranian Cooperation in Addressing Global Issues (2000) - In 2000, the leadership of the National Academies accepted an invitation from the leadership of the Iranian Academy of Sciences and the Iranian...