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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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 Recently Released: September 16, 2008 A report of the CSIS Human Rights and Security Initiative and the Working Group on Guantánamo and Detention Policy: Dr. Sarah Mendelson, on behalf of the Working Group on Guantánamo and Detention Policy, presents the final report, Closing Guantánamo, From Bumper Sticker to Blueprint. In it, the working group outlines a series of critical steps the next administration must take to effectively and securely close down the Guantánamo Bay detention facility. |
Human rights norms have come under significant strain in the years following September 2001. The much touted human rights regime that emerged in the post-World War II era is currently in jeopardy, and the resulting security implications have been largely ignored – both by individual states and by the international community at large. In order to improve our understanding of human rights abuse as a challenge to international security CSIS has established the Human Rights and Security Initiative under the lead of Dr. Sarah E. Mendelson.
The initiative's research and activities are organized around several themes:
For more information on human rights in Russia, please visit the Russia & Eurasia program Human Rights in Russia project pages.
We do not do this work alone.
CSIS is grateful to several donors that have made this work on human rights possible:
The Ford Foundation
The Robert Bosch Stiftung
The Gruber Family Foundation
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