Committee on Human Rights
The Committee on Human Rights (CHR) is a standing membership committee of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and National Academy of Medicine. It serves as a bridge between the human rights and scientific communities, in recognition of the importance of rights protection for scientific inquiry and the realization of human dignity worldwide.
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International Meeting on Academic Freedom and Human Rights
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The CHR serves as the secretariat to the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies (IHRN), which recently held its 15th biennial meeting in Oslo, Norway. The meeting, hosted by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, focused on growing challenges to academic freedom worldwide.
Issues at the Intersection of Engineering and Human Rights
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Read a newly released proceedings of a symposium that examined how engineering decisions intersect with human rights, social justice, ethics, equity, and global responsibility.
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