Gresham College Lecture Monday, December 9, 2013 – 6:00 p.m.
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Transcript of Gresham College Lecture Monday, December 9, 2013 – 6:00 p.m.
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
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt holding text of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
John C. Polanyi
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1986
Portrait by Brenda Bury
Lipman Bers, mathematicianColumbia University
Lipman Bers at NAS with Andrei Sakharov after Sakharov’s release from Gorky
From left: Gerard Debreu, President - Supreme Court of Chile, Baruch Blumberg, Eric Stover, Carol Corillon, Maximo Pacheco
Lawrence Klein, EconomistUniversity of Pennsylvania
1987 CHR Mission to Somalia
Mission report
1987 CHR Mission to Somalia
Release of Somali prisoners, 1989
1987 CHR Mission to Somalia
Communication code used by Somali prisoners
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.
CHR Missions to Guatemala1991, 1992, 2002
Mission delegates Robert Curl and Arjuna Aluwihare with Mrs. Sen, lawyer, and colleagues
Dr. Sen’ rural clinic in Chhattisgarh
Founding Members: Pieter Van Dijk (Netherlands), François Jacob (France), Eduardo Vesentini (Italy), Torsten Wiesel (USA), Max Perutz (U.K.)
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
Human rights is an eternal struggle in which a final victory can never be won.
-Albert Einstein
Thank you.