Symposium_in_brief
Many of the challenges engineers seek to address through their work - from increased access to clean water and transportation to climate change adaptation - are inextricably tied to human rights, and addressing them holistically requires embedding human rights frameworks into engineering practice. In turn, efforts to advance human rights can be strengthened by incorporating engineering expertise, problem-solving approaches, and novel technologies.
To explore these concepts, the National Academy of Engineering Cultural, Ethical, Social, and Environmental Responsibility in Engineering program and the Committee on Human Rights of the National Academy of Sciences conducted a symposium on November 18-19, 2024. Participants discussed ways to increase awareness of the role that engineers play in protecting and promoting human rights and explored ways that human rights-based approaches in engineering might help engineers and human rights experts solve pressing challenges. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussion of the symposium.
104 pages
·
8.5 x 11
·
paperback
ISBN Paperback: 0-309-99323-7
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-99324-5
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/29141
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Issues at the Intersection of Engineering and Human Rights: Proceedings of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Import this citation to:
The Committee on Human Rights (CHR) promotes engagement with internationally recognized human rights norms to help shape effective, sustainable, and just responses to societal challenges. It advocates and marshals support for members of the research, technological, and health care communities who come under threat as a result of repression and discrimination. This annual report summarizes the activities of CHR in 2024.
1 pages
·
·
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/29067
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Committee on Human Rights: Annual Report 2024. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Import this citation to:
The Committee on Human Rights (CHR) promotes engagement with internationally recognized human rights norms to help shape effective, sustainable, and just responses to societal challenges. It advocates and marshals support for members of the research, technological, and health care communities who come under threat as a result of repression and discrimination. This annual report summarizes the activities of CHR in 2023.
20 pages
·
8.5 x 11
·
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72117-2
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/27808
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Committee on Human Rights: Annual Report 2023. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Import this citation to:
Workshop_in_brief
In December 2023, the National Academies hosted a public webinar in which medical and human rights experts explored concerns related to harassment, threats, and physical attacks against health care professionals working to provide essential reproductive health care. The event was the fourth in a webinar series designed to consider society-wide effects of limits to reproductive health care access in the U.S. following the 2022 Supreme Court Decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization. This Proceedings of a Workshop-in Brief highlights the presentations and discussions that occurred at the webinar.
8 pages
·
8.5 x 11
·
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71630-6
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/27518
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Harassment and Violence Against Health Professionals Who Provide Reproductive Care: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Import this citation to:
With the support of the National Academies leadership and the more than 1,500 Academy members who actively support our work, the Committee on Human Rights (CHR) continues to assist colleagues under threat around the world and integrate human rights into the work of the National Academies. This publication highlights the assistance provided by CHR to at-risk colleagues and advocacy work and events hosted by CHR during 2022 to draw attention to colleagues suffering human rights abuses as a consequence of their professional activities and their exercise of internationally protected rights.
28 pages
·
8.5 x 11
·
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-70247-X
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/27011
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Committee on Human Rights: Annual Report 2022. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Import this citation to:
Scientists and health professionals have long been targeted in connection with their professional work. Though this problem preceded the pandemic, it has emerged as a major concern, both in the United States and globally, as a result of COVID-19. Since the onset of the pandemic, scientists and health professionals have been subjected to threats and other attacks - online and offline - resulting from their efforts to combat the spread of COVID-19 with public health interventions and information. Reports of violence - carried out by numerous actors, including governments, groups, and individuals - are wide ranging and have come from all over the globe. In some cases, scientists, health professionals, and other groups have been targeted by multiple sources simultaneously, putting them at heightened risk of harm.
Beginning September 1, 2022, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Human Rights hosted five webcasts examining the global problem of COVID-19-related attacks on researchers and health professionals, along with concerns regarding repression of information during the pandemic and implications for internationally protected rights. Topics included the targeting of scientists and public health professionals for providing evidence-based health information, global patterns of violence against health personnel, censorship and the right to information, science communication and human rights amid public health emergencies, and constructing a human rights framework for online health-related speech. This Proceedings of a Symposium-in Brief provides a high-level summary of the issues discussed during the series.
10 pages
·
8.5 x 11
·
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-70180-5
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/26936
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Attacks on Scientists and Health Professionals During the Pandemic: Proceedings of a Symposium—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Import this citation to:
The annual report of the Committee on Human Rights (CHR) provides an overview of the CHR's activities in 2021, including information on its advocacy, events, and awareness-raising projects.
26 pages
·
·
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-68893-0
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/26577
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Committee on Human Rights: Year in Review 2021. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Import this citation to:
The annual report of the Committee on Human Rights (CHR) provides an overview of the CHR's activities in 2017, including information on its advocacy, events, and awareness-raising projects.
15 pages
·
8.5 x 11
·
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-09269-8
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/26293
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Committee on Human Rights: Year in Review 2017. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Import this citation to:
The annual report of the Committee on Human Rights (CHR) provides an overview of the CHR's activities in 2020, including information on its advocacy, events, and awareness-raising projects.
22 pages
·
·
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-08755-4
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/26275
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Committee on Human Rights: Year in Review 2020. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Import this citation to:
The annual report of the Committee on Human Rights (CHR) provides an overview of the CHR's activities in 2019, including information on its advocacy, events, and awareness-raising projects.
23 pages
·
·
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-08754-6
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/26274
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Committee on Human Rights: Year in Review 2019. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Import this citation to:
The annual report of the Committee on Human Rights (CHR) provides an overview of the CHR's activities in 2018, including information on its advocacy, events, and awareness-raising projects.
9 pages
·
8.5 x 11
·
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-08753-8
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/26273
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Committee on Human Rights: Year in Review 2018. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Import this citation to:
Digital technologies provide a means of anticipating, analyzing, and responding to human rights concerns, but they also present human rights challenges. These technologies have expanded opportunities for individuals and organizations to mobilize, document, and advocate, including around human rights and humanitarian crises; however, with these opportunities come certain concerns. Digital technologies have, for instance, been used to spread disinformation, surveil human rights defenders, and promote and incite violence. Discrimination in the use of, and access to, digital technologies presents another serious concern.
On September 18, 2019, the Committee on Human Rights of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine gathered experts in the fields of human rights and digital technology to examine these and other challenges and to explore ways of leveraging digital innovations in a manner that helps protect internationally recognized human rights. Human Rights and Digital Technologies: Proceedings of a Symposium of Scholars and Practitioners briefly summarizes themes discussed at the symposium.
14 pages
·
8.5 x 11
·
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-08757-0
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/26277
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Human Rights and Digital Technologies: Proceedings of a Symposium of Scholars and Practitioners—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Import this citation to:
On December 7-8, 2017, the Committee on Human Rights of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine gathered leading scholars and practitioners for a symposium on Protecting the Rights of Individuals Fleeing Conflict: The Role of Scientists, Engineers, and Health Professionals. Participants discussed ongoing efforts to help address difficulties faced by forcibly displaced persons, including scholars forced to flee their homes. Speakers also identified potential areas for further engagement of the academic community in response to these difficulties, highlighting methodological, ethical, and other considerations. The Proceedings of a Symposium briefly summarizes themes discussed at the symposium, with selected examples of participants' work on displacement.
8 pages
·
8.5 x 11
·
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-08756-2
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/26276
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Protecting the Rights of Individuals Fleeing Conflict: The Role of Scientists, Engineers, and Health Professionals: Proceedings of a Symposium—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Import this citation to:
Symposium_in_brief
This report is the proceedings of the seventh biennial meeting of the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies. (The international Network, created in 1993, consists of 70 national academies and scholarly societies around the world that work to address serious science and human rights issues of mutual concern. The Committee on Human Rights of the U.S. National Academies serves as the Network's secretariat.) The meeting was held on May 18 and 20, 2005, at the Royal Society in London. The main events of the meeting were a semipublic symposium, entitled Scientists, Human Rights, and Prospects for the Future, and a workshop on a variety of topics related to science, engineering, and health in the human rights context.
176 pages
·
8.5 x 11
·
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-66561-2
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/11740
National Research Council. 2006. International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies: Proceedings - Symposium and Seventh Biennial Meeting, London, May 18-20, 2005. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Import this citation to:
Consensus
53 pages
·
6 x 9
·
paperback
ISBN Paperback: 0-309-08916-6
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-50785-5
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/10691
National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. 2003. Guatemala: Human Rights and the Myrna Mack Case. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Import this citation to:
Symposium_in_brief
155 pages
·
8.5 x 11
·
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/10706
National Research Council. 2003. International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies: Proceedings - Symposium and Fifth Biennial Meeting, Paris, May 10-11, 2001. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Import this citation to:
24 pages
·
8.5 x 11
·
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-54163-8
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/10148
National Research Council. 2001. Report on the Case of Dr. Saad Eddin Mohamed Ibrahim, Imprisoned Sociologist, Cairo, Egypt. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Import this citation to: