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Gresham College LectureMonday, December 9, 2013 – 6:00 p.m.
On the occasion of:The 80th Anniversary of CARA (Council for Assisting Refugee
Academics)
Scientists Should Act to Protect and Promote Human Rights—for Both
Scientific and Humanitarian Reasons
Carol Corillon
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As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall only live in a country where civil liberty, tolerance, and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.
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Eleanor Roosevelt holding text of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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John C. Polanyi
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1986
Portrait by Brenda Bury
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Lipman Bers, mathematicianColumbia University
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Lipman Bers at NAS with Andrei Sakharov after Sakharov’s release from Gorky
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From left: Gerard Debreu, President - Supreme Court of Chile, Baruch Blumberg, Eric Stover, Carol Corillon, Maximo Pacheco
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Lawrence Klein, EconomistUniversity of Pennsylvania
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1987 CHR Mission to Somalia
Mission report
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1987 CHR Mission to Somalia
Release of Somali prisoners, 1989
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1987 CHR Mission to Somalia
Communication code used by Somali prisoners
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CHR Missions to Guatemala1991, 1992, 2002
Guatemalan anthropologist Myrna Mack Chang
Stabbed to death in front of her office in 1990, a day after she published a report with Georgetown University on the plight of the indigenous peoples at the hands of the military forces.
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CHR Missions to Guatemala1991, 1992, 2002
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Mission delegates Robert Curl and Arjuna Aluwihare with Mrs. Sen, lawyer, and colleagues
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Dr. Sen’ rural clinic in Chhattisgarh
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Founding Members: Pieter Van Dijk (Netherlands), François Jacob (France), Eduardo Vesentini (Italy), Torsten Wiesel (USA), Max Perutz (U.K.)
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Executive Committee:
•Arjuna Aluwihare, Sri Lanka
•Dorairajan Balasubramanian, India
•Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, France
•Abdallah S. Daar, Oman/Canada
•Felton Earls, United States of America
•Belita Koiller, Brazil
•Pedro León Azofeifa, Costa Rica
•Dong-Pil Min, Republic of Korea
•Ida Nicolaisen, Denmark
•John Polanyi, Canada
•Alenka Šelih, Slovenia
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Human rights is an eternal struggle in which a final victory can never be won.
-Albert Einstein
Thank you.