For members of the NAS, NAE, IOM, and International Human Rights Network:
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Help us support the rights of scientists, engineers, and health professionals GIVE TO CHR | Committee on Human Rights National Academy of Sciences 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 Phone: (202) 334-3043 Fax: (202) 334-2225 Email: chr@nas.edu
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Chair Sidney Verba Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts | Vice Chair Mary Jane West-Eberhard Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute University of Costa Rica Ciudad Universitaria, Costa Rica | Members George J. Annas Boston University Boston, Massachusetts
Felton Earls Harvard University Boston, Massachusetts John G. Kassakian Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts Leland Hartwell Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona |
Michael Katz March of Dimes Foundation White Plains, New York
Anthony Leggett University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois Fawwaz Ulaby University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan Tilahun Yilma University of California, Davis Davis, California |
In addition to the 10 members of the Human rights Committee, more than 1,600 members of the NAS, NAE, and IOM are volunteers who bring their personal prestige to bear. The CHR’s Action Alerts (usually one a month) are sent to these volunteer “correspondents” and they then take individual action on the cases, particularly those cases for which they believe their personal appeals will have, perhaps, a special or uniquely positive influence. Once these individuals are identified, the CHR particularly works with them to discuss and develop or refine effective strategies that might gain the prisoner’s release or, at least, improved conditions of confinement.
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