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Committee on Human Rights: Year in Review 2017
Committee on Human Rights: Year in Review 2017
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This inspiring event brought together scholars, including refugee scholars; representatives from UN agencies, the World Bank, and other international bodies; human rights organizations; and research and policy institutions. Discussion focused on efforts to address systematic challenges faced by displaced persons and to assist refugee scholars and scientists seeking to reestablish their careers in exile.
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. With this online system, it takes only a few minutes to have customized letters of appeal sent to you for mailing and less than one minute to add your name to a joint appeal letter signed by members of the CHR and other concerned members of the National Academies.
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Alongside the CHR's advocacy, the committee provides assistance to professional colleagues under threat by linking them to the wider international scientific community and to organizations that provide pro bono legal support and other services. CHR members, and other members of the Academies, play a distinctive and influential advocacy role as globally respected individuals expressing solidarity with colleagues under threat.
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February 2018 – Iranian Baha'i leader and engineer Saeid Rezaie reunites with his wife after nearly 10 years in prison.
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Atnaf Berahane Natnael Feleke Befeqadu Hailu Saeid Rezaie Mahvash Sabet Abel Wabella 5
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The CHR is currently working on 74 cases spanning the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and Eurasia, Asia, the Americas, and sub-Saharan Africa. Of its current cases, 49% are scientists, 31% are health professionals, and 20% are engineers.
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Click on the images below * as of March 2018 Family member of physicist and former prisoner of conscience 8
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Governments are typical perpetrators, enabled by weak laws and supplied by the growing global market for digital surveillance, intrusion, and filtering technologies. Citizen Lab researchers engage directly with the victims of these operations and, in a recent high-profile case, helped deter a cyber-attack against an Emirati scientific colleague whose case the CHR is following.
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The panel discussion highlighted the historic lack of attention this issue has received, but also the recent increase in actions taken to address attacks on health professionals. When asked what steps we can take now to help solve this crisis, panelists pointed to the need for implementation of laws designed to reduce civilian casualties and greater efforts to [from left to right]
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The 2017 symposium, which was also webcast live, brought together scholars, including academics who themselves have fled their countries; representatives from UN agencies, the World Bank, and other international bodies; human rights organizations; and research and policy institutions, for a discussion on how scientists, health professionals, and engineers can help to address the challenges faced by refugees and other forcibly displaced persons. Symposium participants examined scientific, technological, and medical developments currently being used to provide support for refugees and other displaced persons, including the benefits and potential drawbacks of such developments.
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67 resolved successfully 8 have seen positive developments 12
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Programs and other information concerning previous meetings of the H.R. Network can be found here.
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Your support allows the Committee to enhance its role as the voice of human rights for the three Academies. Contact CHR: Phone: 202 334 3043 Fax: 202 334 2225 Email: chr@nas.edu https://www8.nationalacademi es.org/AcademyGiving/, [chr@nas.edu]
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