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Home page  About CSIS Programs Human Rights and Security Initiative
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Human Rights and Security Initiative
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News Highlights
Sarah E. Mendelson published an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle, "Beyond Blackwater," on November 12, 2007. The op-ed addresses links between contractors and human trafficking in and around military deployments, as well as what Congress should do to address this issue.
Sarah E. Mendelson provided a comment on the Federal Acquisition Regulation (Revised Interim Rule), Combating Trafficking in Persons, on October 16, 2007.
The CSIS Human Rights and Security Initiative and the Robert Bosch Stiftung released a new report, 49 Steps To Improve Human Rights and Security in the North Caucasus, on September 18, 2007. The report is available in English, Russian, and French.
Sarah E. Mendelson and Martina E. Vandenberg provided comments on the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, Combating Trafficking in Persons, on January 26, 2007 and August 22, 2005.
Human Rights and Security Initiative Launched
January 3, 2007
Recent Publications
Never Again! The United Nations Commemorates the Holocaust
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Recent News Coverage
Johanna Mendelson Foreman, a senior associate at CSIS, had an op-ed published in the Miami Herald, "What Haiti Needs to Sustain Progress."
Sarah Mendelson, a senior fellow with the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program, was quoted by the Washington Times, "Bush Meeting with Kissinger, Primakov."
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The security implications of human rights abuse in multiple settings are often ignored, misunderstood, assumed as somehow inevitable, or considered an acceptable price of otherwise difficult policy decisions. The impact of abuse inside communities and on the stability of countries can be a fundamental security challenge to a state’s trajectory. Rampant abuse by states indicates much about the nature of a country and what sort of member of the international community it is likely to be. Similarly, the international community’s ambivalence about upholding human rights norms or addressing human rights violations affects global security. To advance and explore the concept of human rights abuse as a security challenge, Dr. Sarah E. Mendelson has addressed these issues in several dimensions in the United States, Eurasia and Europe.
The initiative's research is organized around three projects:
For more information on human rights in Russia, please click here.
We do not do this work alone.
CSIS is grateful to our network of scholars and activists who work with us. Dr. Mendelson thanks in particular Ted Gerber, Greg Minjack, Grisha Shvedov, Tanya Lokshina, the Levada Analytic Center, Memorial, Diederik Lohman, Martina Vandenberg, Lisa Kurbiel, Maureen Walsh, Elizabeth Pryor, Representative Chris Smith, Madeleine Rees, Gerard Stoudmann, Burkhard Dammann, Gabriele Reiter, and Paulo Marques.
CSIS is also grateful to several donors that have made this work on human rights possible:
The Ford Foundation
The Robert Bosch Stiftung
The Gruber Family Foundation
If you or your organization would like to get involved and help CSIS maintain its focus on human rights and security, please contact Jessica Scholes, Research Associate, Human Rights and Security Initative.
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Research Associate, Human Rights and Security Initiative |
Jessica Scholes
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202-775-3259
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