Britons ridicule the French for their rule-based language, but at least they have a scholarly academy to discuss and approve (or resist) reform.
Earlier this year, a group called the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies asked a group, which included Peter Diamond, a professor of economics at M.I.T. and a Nobel recipient, to look into the cases of eight Turkish academics who have been charged.
The verdict is a small victory for the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies.
In a letter sent to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan today, the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies says it's "deeply distressed" by the decree and asks Erdoğan to "quickly reverse" it.
The letter's signatories include 11 organizations in global health, six scientists at U.S. and U.K. institutes, and eight of the 10 members of the Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies.
The petition was authored by chemistry Nobel laureate and Rice University professor emeritus Robert Curl and released to the Indian media on Monday, says Carol Corillon, the executive director of the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies.
The International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies today issued a public statement and a letter calling on Bahrain's king to clear the medics of all charges and let them get back to work.
"To impose, in the 21st century, such restrictions on the higher education of Iranian women … is appalling," the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies says in a statement released today.
The Turkish government is persecuting academics, using the court system as a political weapon, according to a report issued today by the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies (IHRN) based in Washington, D.C.
"No credible evidence [against him] was ever produced," says Carol Corillon, executive director of the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies (IHRN) in Washington, D.C. Kemal Gürüz has spent the past year in jail during the court proceedings, during which time his health has deteriorated due to a blocked artery.
