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In support of scientific exchange

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The International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies (http://www4.nas.edu/oia/oiahome.nsf/web/network) was created to address grave issues of science and human rights throughout the world. It aims to put into practice the professional duty of scientists and scholars to assist those colleagues whose human rights have been — or are threatened to be — infringed, and to promote and protect the independence of academies and scholarly societies worldwide. The basis of the network's activities is the universal declaration of human rights.

The network seeks to promote the free exchange of ideas and opinions among scientists and scholars in all countries and, thereby, to stimulate the development of collaborative educational, research and human-rights endeavours within academies and the institutions with which they are affiliated.

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  1. University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

    Arjuna Aluwihare

  2. Collège de France, Paris, France

    Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

  3. Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

    Ayse Erzan

  4. Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

    François Jacob

  5. University of Toronto, Canada

    John Polanyi

  6. Former Professor of Public International Law, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

    Pieter van Dijk

  7. Politecnico di Torino, Italy

    Edoardo Vesentini

  8. The Rockefeller University, New York, USA

    Torsten Wiesel

  9. Executive Director, The International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies, 500 Fifth Street NW, Suite 5-530, Washington DC, 20001, USA

    Carol Corillon

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This statement was issued on 28 April 2002 by the members of the executive committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies. It was sent privately to some 60 national academies affiliated with the network. In response to a request by Nature, the committee (whose members' institutions are listed for identification purposes only) has agreed to its publication — Editor, Correspondence.

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Aluwihare, A., Cohen-Tannoudji, C., Erzan, A. et al. In support of scientific exchange. Nature 417, 690 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/417690c

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