Tag: Academic freedom
Human Rights Day 2022: #StandUp4HumanRights
The 10th of December 2022 is Human Rights Day, and it’s an important date in the calendar of internationally observed events by the United Nations (UN). Human Rights Day 2022 is a celebration of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN General Assembly in 1948. After the horrors and atrocities of World War 2, nations […]
Mapping freedom in academia
The ‘Mapping Funds’ project is creating maps based on collaborative and crowdsourced (public contribution) information as an active way to support the scientific activities and studies of at-risk scholars. These scholars are encountering constraints on their research activities due to the restrictive regimes they live and work in. The constraints include travel bans, deportations, arrest, prosecution and imprisonment. The project […]