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It is in the Society's best interest to maintain links to international chemistry organizations and continue to exchange information and goodwill. In 1962, ACS established a Committee on International Activities, whose mission included keeping abreast of activities concerning chemical education, professional activities, and scientific matters of interest to chemists and chemical engineers. The following year, the ACS Board of Directors established the Office of International Activities, providing a liaison between ACS and other organizations, as well as establishing an active administrator for carrying out the Committee's mission. Since 1978, the ACS International Activities Subcommittee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights has monitored foreign government's treatment of scientists for human rights abuses. ACS and other societies have partnered to petition the governments of the countries where such violations take place to attain a peaceful resolution.