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Committee on Human Rights: Year in Review 2020
Committee on Human Rights: Year in Review 2020
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Johns Hopkins University John Carlson The Committee advocates in support of scientists, engineers, and Yale University health professionals subjected to serious human rights abuses worldwide, including in the United States, with a focus on Christine Cassel individuals targeted for their professional activities and/or for University of California, San Francisco having exercised the universally protected right to freedom of Michael Clegg expression, which provides a crucial foundation for scientific University of California, Irvine research and progress. CHR cases involve long-term arbitrary detention, gross violations of the right to fair trial, withdrawal of Carlos Del Rio citizenship without due process, torture, and disappearance, NAM Foreign Secretary among other serious violations of international human rights law.
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The COVID-19 pandemic, and the the CHR is well-poised to explore and help response to the pandemic, have presented address these multi-dimensional serious human rights difficulties alongside challenges. This Annual Report provides an the more widely recognized scientific and overview of CHR's recent efforts, including medical challenges.
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Much of the CHR's advocacy this year has been connected to the COVID-19 pandemic, from the Committee's actions to gain the release of imprisoned colleagues at high risk for COVID-19 infection to its support for colleagues who have been harassed, threatened, criminally investigated, and jailed for speaking out about health and safety concerns arising from the pandemic. In connection with these efforts, the CHR issued a rare public statement in July condemning attacks against scientists and health experts battling COVID-19 in the United States.
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cities. To help empower colleagues undergoing rights abuse, along with their families and other supporters, and to assist them in obtaining justice, the CHR has produced an e-guide, Confronting Human Rights Abuses: A Guide for Supporting Scientists, Engineers, and Health Professionals Under Threat, containing information on relevant international human rights standards and complaint mechanisms, advocacy tools, and assistance providers.
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The CHR has also researched and documented numerous instances of scientists and public health experts in the United States and abroad who have been targeted in connection with their efforts to combat COVID-19. The Committee's advocacy to assist colleagues in these two areas has included action alerts, appeals, statements, and approaches to international human rights bodies.
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Colleagues have also come under threat in Turkey, where scientists and health professionals critical of the government's COVID-19 response have found themselves subjected to criminal investigations. In the United States, numerous experts have been disparaged, harassed, and threatened with physical violence for their efforts related to the pandemic.
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In 2020 the CHR worked on 79 cases involving colleagues in the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and Eurasia, the Asia-Pacific region, and the Americas. Of these colleagues, 49% were scientists, 18% were engineers, and 33% were health professionals.
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Such attacks, which included the firing of projectiles directly at medics attempting to provide needed care, constituted serious violations of international human rights law. CHR STATEMENT ON SYSTEMIC RACISM AND INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES In solidarity with individuals peacefully protesting racial injustice throughout the United States, the CHR issued a statement recognizing the systemic racism and inequality that pervade U.S.
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In an ongoing CHR program that provides law students with an opportunity to explore the application of international human rights law to real world situations, law students from Case Western Reserve University have assisted CHR staff in researching cases involving scientists and public health experts who have come under attack. The students have gathered information about interference with the provision of health care during protests in the United States and are preparing a submission to international human rights experts based on their findings.
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Visit our website for more details on these cases. 5 Academics for Peace Fariba Adelkhah Tuna Altinel Chan Kin-man Payman Kooshakbaghi Jose Alberto Marulanda Narges Mohammadi Kylie Moore-Gilbert Nabeel Rajab Murat Tuncer Photo Credits: Image of Chan Kin-man by Etan Liam; Image of Narges Mohammadi courtesy of the Center for Human Rights in Iran; Image of Nabeel Rajab provided by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights.
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Developed with input from scientists, engineers, and health professionals who have themselves come under threat, it provides human rights information specific to members of these professional communities along with important general information. The CHR has prepared resource collections on key topics related to human rights and science, engineering, and medicine, including on the implications of COVID-19 for human rights.
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The panel was moderated by Alicia Ely Yamin (Lecturer on Law and Senior Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School) and featured presentations by Ana Diex Roux (Dean and Distinguished University Professor of Epidemiology, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University/Director, Drexel Urban Health Collaborative)
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Today the IHRN advocates in support of professional colleagues suffering human rights abuses, promotes the free exchange of ideas and opinions among scientists and scholars, and works to raise awareness of the connections between human rights, science, engineering, and medicine. In May 2020, the IHRN's Executive Committee, made up of members from 12 academies around the world, issued a public statement calling for a human rights-based approach to COVID-19.
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Stellenbosch, South Africa. He is a Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS)
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The event consisted of a series of presentations and webinars on rights-related challenges, including the following: Professor Larry Gostin, NAM member and Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center, delivered the keynote address, "Towards a Human Rights-Based Approach to COVID19". In his address, Prof.
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The repository features resources on an array of topics, such as the pandemic's impact on the digital education divide, COVID-19 and children's rights, and privacy implications of digital contract tracing efforts. Examples of featured resources include: A Policy Briefing produced by the Royal Society of Canada that examines various rights engaged by COVID-19 response strategies, including the rights to freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, liberty and security, and privacy.
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AT A GLANCE T h e infographics below provide a professional and regional breakdown of th e CHR's current * and resolved cases.
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It is our responsibility to ensure that science and its applications are in harmony with the full set of universal standards. A human-rights approach to science must be at the heart of what we want to be a sustainable future...
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B E C OME A CH R C O R R E S P O N D E N T EMAIL I f you a r e a m e m ber of the National Academies interest e d i n r e c eiving updates on the CHR's chr@nas.edu activitie s , b e c o m e a Correspondent by emailing the CHR a t [ c h r @ n as.edu]
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