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Say Yes to Drugs campaign

 

This fall, the Harvard 'Say Yes to Drugs' campaign has inspired students, staff and faculty across campus with their bold campaign in support of access to essential medicines. The SYD campaign is focused on how Harvard's scientific discoveries become available to the world's poorest people, and on realizing the principles set out in the Statement of Principles and Strategies for the Equitable Dissemination of Medical Technologies. 

 

Inspired by Harvard's commitment not to allow intellectual property to become a barrier to essential health-related technologies needed by patients in the global south, members of the Harvard Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) chapter founded the SYD campaign to raise awareness within the Harvard community.


A rally was held on November 19th in Harvard Yard at 3:45 p.m. to outline the issues raised by the Statement of Principles and Strategies, and to bring together students, staff and faculty in support of the campaign. See coverage in The Crimson here.

 
 

News & Events

 

ETHNIC STUDIES: Harvard's Educational Policy Committee approves new secondary field in "Studies of Ethnicity, Indigeneity, Migration, and Human Rights." See article in The Crimson and website of the Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies for details.

 

Four UCHRS summer scholars featured in Harvard Magazine.


Join our group on FACEBOOK, and help us reach out to UCHRS alums around the world.


Rob Quinn and the Scholars at Risk Network featured in the Christian Science Monitor.


UCHRS Scholar Thrishantha Nanayakkara launches new book Devi! Read his article, "The Notion of Citizenship and Political Stability" on the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defense Website.


The Scholar Rescue Fund reports to the UN on academics under threat. Read more.

 

Click here for more news on human rights at Harvard and beyond.


VIDEOS OF UCHRS EVENTS NOW ONLINE!


60 Years of Human Rights Part 1
60 Years of Human Rights Part 2


Professor Darius Rejali Lecture "Torture and Democracy: What Now?"


Ambassador Peter Maurer Lecture "Promoting Human Rights and Protecting Human Dignity Through the UN"


Justice Goldstone Lecture "The Legacy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights"


JFK Forum video: "60 Years of Human Rights: The Idea and the Reality" Featuring Harvard President Drew Faust, Professor Amartya Sen, Doctor Paul Farmer


Watch a video of the program at the JFK Forum (link above) with a dramatic reading directed by the A.R.T. in collaboration with Physicians for Human Rights and see and hear a concert by Mali's Diva, Oumou Sangare!

 

Opportunities

 

The deadline for Scholars at Risk nominations for 2010-11 has now passed.  Mid-year nominations are considered on an emergency basis.

Please see here for further information and nomination forms.

 

Human Rights Course Guide for 2009-10

 

HARVARD ALUMNI:

See our new section for ALUMNI interested in human rights and staying connected to

UCHRS and Harvard human rights students!