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Committee for Human Rights

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The Committee for Human Rights is made up of eight elected members of AAA, who each serve three-year terms on the committee.

Established in 1995, after a 3-year planning effort by its predecessor, the AAA Commission on Human Rights. The Committee's work falls broadly into internal and external categories.

Internal

Mission
To stimulate informed involvement in the human rights area among professional anthropologists through publications, panels and network building. The Committee's proposed Declaration on Anthropology and Human Rights, the white papers of its task groups on ethnic cleansing and on the human rights of women are further examples, and these web pages are among the products of this effort. 

External

Mission
To gather information on selected, anthropologically relevant, cases of human rights abuse and to propose action in the name of the American Anthropological Association to the Association's leadership. The committee's briefing documents, prepared in order to brief the Association's leadership on particular cases of human rights abuse, are one product of the external mission.

The committee welcomes your comments on issues relevant to the advancement of human rights. If you would be interested in submitting or receiving human rights news, please e-mail your request directly to Damon Dozier (ddozier@aaanet.org) to be added to our listserv.

Our 2008 Annual and Five-Year Report are now available.  You may view the document [pdf] here.

See a human rights abuse in the field? Here's what you can do.

Recent & Past CfHR Reports, Updates,and Correspondence
 2009
 2008
2007
2006
2005

CfHR Human Rights Documents:
  • Declaration on Anthropology & Human Rights
  • Updates on current cases
  • Reports on human rights cases commissioned by the CfHR
  • letters from AAA and the Committee
  • Other correspondence, cases, and issues
  • El Dorado Task Force Reports
 Resources for Anthropologists Concerned with Human Rights:
Committee Structure

Acknowledgements:
CfHR would like to acknowledge the help of two students, Greg Grossmeier (University of Minnesota) and Beth Anderson (University of Iowa) for their contributions to redesigning and updating the CfHR webpage in the Fall of 2005.