DNA Profiling:
Australian
Journal of Human Rights
Article on DNA and the criminal justice system
The European
Initiative for Biotechnology Education.
"DNA Profiling comprises information and discussion questions
about DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling, with instructions for
a practical simulation. The Unit is designed to stimulate debate
in the classroom. DNA fingerprinting, especially its use in criminal
databases, raises important issues for society. Some of the more
frequently-raised concerns are examined. An introductory section
provides some background information on DNA profiling and its development.
This is followed by some case studies and explanations of modern
applications of the technique, and its reliability. Questions that
can be used to stimulate debate in the classroom about the application
of DNA profiling are also provided. The remainder of this Unit is
a practical simulation using DNA gel electrophoresis."
Forensic
Anthropology:
Inforce:
International Forensic Centre of Excellence for the Investigation
of Genocide
"To provide a centre of expertise for the location, recovery
and identification of victims of atrocities on a world-wide basis.
To enable legitimate legal authorities to proceed with the prosecution
of alleged perpetrators. To satisfy the humanitarian need of families
and communities to bury their dead. To provide education for practitioners
and as means of empowering survivor groups."
Argentine
Forensic Anthropology Team E.A.A.F.
"Since it was founded in 1984, EAAFs work in Argentina
has focused on investigating cases of persons who were disappeared
during the last military dictatorship (1976-1983). In 1998, as in
previous years, EAAF concentrated much of its energy on working
with a variety of sources of documentation, such previously inaccessible,
which contain a great deal of information about the disappearances.
EAAF has also been creating new data bases that allow us to store
and analyze this information
"
Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team E.A.A.F.: Guatemala
"Over the past four decades, more people have been forcibly
disappeared in Guatemala than in any other Latin American nation.
Since 1960, when civil war broke out in Guatemala, approximately
45 000 disappearances have been reported an extremely high
figure for a country with a current population of only ten million.
In addition to the disappearances, approximately 100 000 people
were killed in other ways during the conflict
."
Exhuming the
Truth
"The Guatemala Forensic Anthropology Team, working under the
authority of the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala
(MINUGUA), will begin gathering evidence this week from a remote
mass grave site in Guatemala. The team will initiate their investigations
on December 8 in Acul, established in 1983 by the government as
the first "model" village in the country after the original
town was destroyed by the Guatemalan army
"
Forensic
Science Web sites
A list of other links for further investigation into the study of
forensic anthropology.
Minesota
State University E-Museum
"Clyde Snow is perhaps the most famous Forensic Anthropologists
in the world today. He prefers to call his work, "osteobiography"
saying, "there is a brief but very useful and informative biography
of an individual contained within the skeleton, if you know how
to read it" (Current Biography 52)."
Physicians
for Human Rights
Since 1986, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has conducted fact-finding
investigations and research on human rights violations and their
health effects in over fifty countries. PHR utilizes the skills
and knowledge of the medical and forensic sciences and the tenets
of international human rights and humanitarian law.
Rwanda: Stefan Schmits Human Rights and Forensic Anthropology
Page
The first three months of 1996 I spent in Rwanda. Physicians for
Human Rights had invited me to form part and assist the United Nation's
Senior Forensic Consultant Dr. William Haglund and the Director
of Forensic Programs from PHR, Bob Kirschner, M.D. in organizing
a team of forensic scientists that would exhume and analyze the
remains of victims that had been massacred in April of 1995 in the
small town of Kibuye.
Information Technology and Statistics
Policy
or panic, flight of the Albanians
An overview of Kosovar Refugee migration to Morina, Albania:
Political
Killings in Kosova/Kosovo March-June 1999
"A Cooperative Report by the Central and East European Law
Initiative of the American Bar Association and the Science and Human
Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science"
Refuge
Flow Patterns in Kosovo, March-May 1999
"Much of the continuing debate about the March June
1999 war between NATO and Yugoslavia turns on how many people left
their homes in particular places and at certain times. Solid information
about the flow of refugees out of Kosovo would help investigators
to link patterns in the flow to patterns of NATO bombing, Yugoslav
strategic plans for "cleansing" Kosovo, and Yugoslav and
irregular troop deployments. At its heart, this debate is about
whether refugees left their homes fleeing NATO attacks and fighting
between the KLA and Yugoslav forces, or whether they left their
homes after being threatened, assaulted, and robbed by Yugoslav
police, army, and irregular units.
Remote
Sensing:
Project
on Satellite Imagery and the News Media
A journalists' guide to remote sensing resources on the Internet.
Created by Christopher Simpson at the American University School
of
Communications.
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