1 / 20

Gresham College Lecture Monday, December 9, 2013 – 6:00 p.m.

Gresham College Lecture Monday, December 9, 2013 – 6:00 p.m. On the occasion of: The 80 th 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.

ian-fulton
Download Presentation

Gresham College Lecture Monday, December 9, 2013 – 6:00 p.m.

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. 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

  2. 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.

  3. Eleanor Roosevelt holding text of Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  4. John C. Polanyi Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1986 Portrait by Brenda Bury

  5. Lipman Bers, mathematicianColumbia University

  6. LipmanBersat NAS with Andrei Sakharov after Sakharov’s release from Gorky

  7. From left: Gerard Debreu, President - Supreme Court of Chile, Baruch Blumberg, Eric Stover, Carol Corillon, Maximo Pacheco

  8. Lawrence Klein, EconomistUniversity of Pennsylvania

  9. 1987 CHR Mission to Somalia Mission report

  10. 1987 CHR Mission to Somalia Release of Somali prisoners, 1989

  11. 1987 CHR Mission to Somalia Communication code used by Somali prisoners

  12. 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.

  13. CHR Missions to Guatemala1991, 1992, 2002

  14. Unjustly accused Indian Medical Doctor Binayak Sen

  15. Mission delegates Robert Curl and Arjuna Aluwihare with Mrs. Sen, lawyer, and colleagues

  16. Dr. Sen’ rural clinic in Chhattisgarh

  17. Founding Members: Pieter Van Dijk (Netherlands), François Jacob (France), Eduardo Vesentini (Italy), Torsten Wiesel (USA), Max Perutz (U.K.)

  18. Executive Committee: • ArjunaAluwihare, Sri Lanka • DorairajanBalasubramanian, India • Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, France • Abdallah S. Daar, Oman/Canada • Felton Earls, United States of America • BelitaKoiller, Brazil • Pedro León Azofeifa, Costa Rica • Dong-Pil Min, Republic of Korea • Ida Nicolaisen, Denmark • John Polanyi, Canada • AlenkaŠelih, Slovenia

  19. Human rights is an eternal struggle in which a final victory can never be won. -Albert Einstein Thank you.

More Related