SfAA Human Rights and Social Justice Committee


Mark Schuller, Chair 2013 Carol Nagengast 2014 Diane King 2012 Carla Pezzia 2015 Bill McKinney 2015 Jason Simms 2012 Peter Van Arsdale 2014 Human Rights Briefings These issue briefings are commissioned by the SfAA’s Human Rights and Social Justice Committee in an effort to educate our members, our students, and the general public on timely matters relating to social justice or human rights. It is the hope that policymakers, media, and the general public will come to appreciate an anthropological perspective on contemporary issues. Unless expressly stated otherwise, the findings, interpretations and conclusions expressed in the briefings on this site do not necessarily represent the views of the Society for Applied Anthopology. Alternative views may be submitted to: info@sfaa.net. Briefing on Arizona's Immigration Law, SB 1070 Briefing on Pro-democracy and Dignity Uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East Briefing on U.S. Immigrant Detention as the Next Phase of the Expanding Prison Industrial Complex – A Case Study of Broward Transitional Center Briefing on U.S. Immigration Detention: An Inhumane System Violating Human Rights Briefing on the Human Rights Crisis in Honduras