July 12, 2016
Advocating for prisoners of conscience; using satellite photos to help investigate war crimes; reuniting families of “disappeared” dissidents: It sounds like a list of extraordinary goals.
But for AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights & Law Program experts, it’s all part of the job. The program helped pioneer the use of research to document everything from the killings of political prisoners by military regimes in South America to the destruction of antiquities in the ongoing Syrian civil war. It’s brought hope to researchers jailed by dictatorial regimes and helped put some of those tormentors on trial.
