12th Biennial of the IHRN
hosted by
National Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation of Panama
and the Panama Association for the Advancement of Science
Building 205, City of Knowledge, Clayton
Panama City, Panama
Wednesday, October 5 —Saturday, October 8, 2016
The twelfth biennial meeting of the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies (Network), for which CHR serves as Secretariat, was held under the auspices of the National Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation of Panama (SENACYT) and the Panamanian Association for the Advancement of Science (APANAC) from October 5-8, 2016 in Panama City, Panama. The Network, created in 1993, works to address global concerns related to science and human rights and to promote the free exchange of ideas and opinions among scientists and scholars in all countries.
Representatives of 25 national scientific academies and scholarly societies from around the world were in attendance. The meeting included a one day symposium, Science and Human Rights: Navigating the Currents, with speakers from several Network member academies and academic institutions in Latin America and the Middle East. During the meeting, higher education students in science, engineering, health, law, journalism and other fields engaged with speakers at a special student session on the intersection between science and human rights.
To view the programs for the symposium and student session, please click on the images below.
(left to right) Dorairajan Balasubramanian, Ovid J. L. Tzeng and Édouard Brézin
Rebecca Everly presents at the 2016 Network meeting in Panama.
Participants at the Network student session on Science & Human Rights.
Roberta D'Alessandro presents at the 2016 Network meeting in Panama.
(left to right) Peter Vale, Roberta D'Alessandro, Hans P. Zenner and A. Nuri Yurdusev
Jorge A. Motta, Diana Candanedo and Martin Candanedo
The Miraflores locks at the Panama Canal, Panama.
(left to right) Nelson K. Sewankambo, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Esther Daniel Mwaikambo and Myung Chul Lee
(left to right) Myung Chul Lee, Robin Perutz, Hiroko Goto, Dong-Pil Min and MooYoung Choi
Martin Chalfie presents at the 2016 Network meeting in Panama.
Martin Chalfie
(left to right) José Zaglul and Abdallah S. Daar
(left to right) Jakob Lothe, Elisabeth Rachlew and Rose R. W. Lee
Ida Nicolaisen presents at the 2016 Network meeting in Panama.
Participants of the 2016 Network meeting in Panama.
(left to right) His Excellency Philippe Casenave, French Ambassador to Panama; Tracy Baumgardt; Rebecca Everly; Jakob Lothe; and Ida Nicolaisen
Elisabeth Rachlew presents at the 2016 Network meeting in Panama.
Édouard Brézin, Elisabeth Rachlew, Roberta D'Alessandro and Martin Chalfie
Clara Arenas presents at the 2016 Network meeting in Panama.
(left to right) Édouard Brézin, Carol Corillon and His Excellency Philippe Casenave, French Ambassador to Panama
Carlos Aguirre-Bastos presents at the 2016 Network meeting in Panama.
(left to right) Carlos Aguirre-Bastos, Jorge A. Motta, Martin Candanedo and Diana Candanedo
Benjamin Scharifker
Benjamin Scharifker presents at the 2016 Network meeting in Panama.
(left to right) Belita Koiller, Clara Arenas, Benjamin Scharifker and Angelina Jaffe Carbonell
Belita Koiller presents at the 2016 Network meeting in Panama.
Pedro León Azofeifa presents at the 2016 Network meeting in Panama.
Esther Daniel Mwaikambo (third from left) together with students attending the Network student session on Science & Human Rights.