Committee on Human Rights

The Committee on Human Rights (CHR), created in 1976, is a standing committee of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. It uses the influence and prestige of the institutions it represents in behalf of scientists, engineers, and health professionals anywhere in the world who are unjustly detained or imprisoned for exercising their basic human rights as promulgated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The CHR also serves as the secretariat of the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies. It works to address grave issues of science and human rights, particularly the unjust detention or imprisonment of scientists, scholars, engineers, and health professionals throughout the world, and seeks to promote the free exchange of ideas and opinions among scientists and scholars in all countries.

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