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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Resources for Researchers and Scholars under Threat in the United States
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Researchers and scholars have long been targeted in connection with their professional work. In recent years, such attacks have taken on new dimensions and have originated from a variety of actors. View an array of resources meant to support U.S.-based researchers and scholars facing these threats.
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.
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