Network Statements

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Public Statement on the Crisis in Israel and Gaza
October 18, 2023

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Public Statement on the Nicaraguan Government’s Seizure of the University of Central America
August 23, 2023

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Public Statement on Human Rights Abuses in Sudan
June 5, 2023

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Public Statement on the Ban against Women's Participation in Higher Education in Afghanistan
December 22, 2022

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Public Statement on Human Rights Abuses by the Iranian Government
October 10, 2022

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Public Statement Concerning Assaults on Academic Freedom in Nicaragua
June 7, 2022

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Public Statement Regarding the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
March 3, 2022

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Public Statement Regarding Worrying Pattern of Investigations and Prosecutions involving Researchers of Asian Descent in the United States
February 9, 2022

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Public Statement Regarding Governmental Harassment of Mexican Scientific Colleagues
October 1, 2021

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Public Statement Regarding Continuing Repression in Nicaragua
June 24, 2021

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Statement Regarding Ongoing Human Rights Abuse in Myanmar
March 16, 2021

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Condemns Attacks on Medics in the U.S.
August 20, 2020

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Calls for a Human Rights-Based Approach to COVID-19
May 19, 2020

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Statement Concerning Threat to Autonomy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
July 29, 2019

​Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Statement Concerning Human Rights Abuses by the Sudanese Government
March 15, 2019

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Statement Concerning Widespread Rights Abuses in Nicaragua
June 18, 2018

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Statement Concerning Unfounded Terrorism Accusations against Philippine Nurse and Human Rights Defender
April 13, 2018

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Statement Concerning Harassment and Intimidation of the Turkish Medical Association
February 1, 2018

​Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Statement Concerning Imminent Execution of Iranian Medical Researcher
December 15, 2017

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Statement Concerning Threats to Scholars and Academic Freedom in Venezuela
September 12, 2017

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Statement Concerning Threats to Scholars and Academic Freedom in Venezuela
February 8, 2017

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issues Statement Regarding Recent Executive Order Issued by U.S. President Donald Trump
February 3, 2017

Executive Committee Members of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issue Statement Regarding Repressive Measures taken against Academic Colleagues in Turkey
September 9, 2016

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies (Network) Issues Statement Concerning Repressive Measures against Turkish Academics
July 25, 2016

Executive Committee Members of the International Human Rights Network of Academies & Scholarly Societies Issue Statement Calling for the Release of Iranian Physicist and Engineer Narges Mohammadi
July 12, 2016

Human Rights Network calls on Turkish government to desist from threatening academic colleagues and to discourage hostile actions against them
January 19, 2016


Prominent International Scientists Condemn Deliberate Attacks on Syrian Health Professionals; Urge National Science Academies to do the same
June 3, 2014

Report Says Turkish Scientists Unjustly Accused; International Human Rights Science Network Calls for Exoneration of Eight Colleagues
July 30, 2013

Statement Regarding Conviction of Six Italian Scientists
October 26, 2012

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies Issues Statement Regarding Iranian Education Restrictions on Women
September 5, 2012

Public letter to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
June 12, 2012

​Public appeal to the King of Bahrain regarding the plight of healthcare professionals and medical neutrality in Bahrain
June 7, 2012

Letter of appeal to the King of Bahrain
June 6, 2012

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies writes to Turkish authorities regarding the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA)
September 6, 2011

International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies sends condolences to Science Council of Japan regarding recent catastrophic events
March 18, 2011

Public Health and Science Professionals Ask UNESCO to Abolish the UNESCO-Obiang Nguema Mbasogo International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences
May 26, 2010

Submission to the U.N. Universal Periodic Review — Libya
April 2010