Editing Torsten Wiesel (section)

===Human rights===
Wiesel has done much work as a global human rights advocate. He served for 10 years (1994–2004) as  chair of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|Committee of Human Rights of the National Academies of Science]] in the US, as well as the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies.<ref name="bare_url">{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1981/wiesel.html|title=Torsten N. Wiesel - Facts|website=nobelprize.org}}</ref> He was awarded the David Rall Medal from the [[Institute of Medicine]] in 2005, in recognition of this important work.{{citation needed|date=April 2009}}  In 2009, Wiesel was awarded the Grand Cordon Order of the Rising Sun Medal in Japan.

He is a founding member of the Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization, a nongovernmental nonprofit established in 2004 to support collaborative research between scientists in Israel and Palestine.<ref name="bare_url" />