News

Network announcements, press releases and other updates from the SAR Secretariat

Brown prepares to house displaced Ukrainian scholars

A piece by Alex Nadirashvili for Brown Daily Herald. The University is currently working with partner organizations such as Scholars at Risk and the New University in Exile Consortium “to provide a safe academic home” for Ukrainian scholars displaced by the ongoing Russian invasion, according

An Interview with Robert Quinn, Founding Executive Director of the Global Network Scholars at Risk

A Q/A by Vanessa Frangville and Gwennaël Gaffric, for Transtext(e)sTranscultures’s special issue “Academic Freedom in a Global Context: Challenges and Perspectives.” VF & GG: We often hear that academic freedom, like other “universal values”, is a western-centric concept and that

Do academic boycotts work?

A piece by Simon Baker, for Times Higher Education: The Ukraine war has led to unprecedented curtailment of academic ties, but could breaking off all relations with Russia cause further problems? The sheer brutality of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

Network Reflections: Hosting at Whitman College

Whitman is a small liberal arts college in Walla Walla, Washington in the US. Our mission is to provide an academically rigorous education to an exclusively undergraduate student body. Since Fall 2017, Whitman has hosted three SAR scholars in: Politics

Network Reflections: First Time Hosts EPFL

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) joined Scholars at Risk (SAR) in 2014. Two years after joining in 2016, EPFL contributed to the establishment of the Swiss section of SAR, which today comprises 24 partner institutions. EPFL’s hosting engagement began

Network Reflections: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)’s engagement with Scholars at Risk began in 2011 with the Norwegian rectors’ formation of a national section. Since then, NTNU has hosted eight scholars from Iran, Eritrea, Turkey, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan. Initially,

UConn and Scholars at Risk: A Life-Saving Partnership, A Transformative Educational Experience

A piece by Jaclyn Severance, for UConn Today. A journalist and activist, Marvi Sirmed faces threats of violence in her home country of Pakistan, but has found safety and academic freedom through UConn’s unique and longstanding partnership with the Scholars

Scholars at Risk March 2022 Newsletter

Scholars at Risk is pleased to share the March 2022 Newsletter. Click here to read this document.

Rights Groups Letter to F1 CEO Ahead of Bahrain Grand Prix

Scholars at Risk, along with 26 international human rights organizations, issued a letter to F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix raising human rights concerns in Bahrain. The letter, which sheds light on the case of imprisoned

Open Letter Against National Overseas Scholarship (NOS) Restrictions (2022-2023 Guidelines)

Scholars at Risk joined more than 20 international associations and organizations and 350 scholars in endorsing International Solidarity for Academic Freedom India’s open letter to India’s Union Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment. The letter outlines numerous objections to recent

Civil society organizations call on Egyptian authorities to drop the case of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy and release him immediately

Scholars at Risk joins several human rights organizations in calling on Egyptian authorities to immediately release detained Egyptian research student, Ahmed Samir Santawy, and drop all charges against him. You can support Ahmed Sanir Santawy in calling for Egyptian authorities

Russia: UN General Assembly should suspend Russia’s membership of UN Human Rights Council

Scholars at Risk signed an open letter, endorsed by nearly 50 NGOs, calling on Member States of the United Nations to take action to suspend the rights of the Russian Federation as a member of the UN Human Rights Council

Solidarity with the people of Ukraine and Ukrainian higher education

Scholars at Risk stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and with people around the world, including in Russia, in condemning the ongoing acts of aggression against the Ukrainian people and territory by the agents and armed forces of

Restore Leadership, Institutional Autonomy to Nicaraguan Universities

Scholars at Risk issued the below letter (PDF available here) to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and the government-run National Council of Universities in response to recent legislative measures stripping the operating licenses of a number of Nicaragua’s leading academic institutions