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Appendix A: The Committees
Pages 43-44

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... citizens as foreign associates; there are currently approximately 275. The National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Human Rights was created in 1976 in response to increased concern by Academy members over repression of scientists in many areas of the world.
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... Its particular concerns in Guatemala were the cases of health professionals who were victims of extrajudicial killings or who have disappeared, as well as the problems encountered by health professionals in carrying out their duties in an atmosphere of repression and fear. It has also sponsored missions to Somalia in 1987 with the CHR and to South Africa in 1989 with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Public Health Association.
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