AAAS Science and Human Rights Campus Event Toolkit
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)’s Science and Human Rights Coalition released a Human Rights Campus Event Toolkit last fall, and I recommend that you check it out and share it with your students. The Toolkit is designed to help students and professors plan and hold events focused at the intersection of science and human rights. Possible topics suggested for such events include: protecting the human rights of scientists, engineers, and health professionals; applying science and technology to human rights research and documentation; scientific associations as a constituency for human rights; professional ethics and human rights; and the human right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications.
The Toolkit includes very useful and practical tips for planning a campus event, including a timeline for event planning, sample invitation emails, advice regarding reserving space to hold the event, sample agendas, sample discussion questions, a sample survey and other tools for evaluating the success of such an event, and more. Moreover, the Toolkit includes ten short (~1 min 30 second) videos which are aimed at helping to start a conversation among participants at the campus events.