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Recent Publications
Closing Guantánamo: From Bumper Sticker to Blueprint
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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
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CSIS launched its project on human rights and counterterrorism in January 2007 as a core part of the Human Rights and Security Initiative. With seed funding from the Ford Foundation, this project seeks to develop policy recommendations designed to be both compliant with human rights and international law and also to keep citizens safe in the United States and Europe. We aim to arrive at these recommendations through collaborative efforts and policy dialogues with the human rights, legal and counterterrorism communities in the United States and abroad.
These efforts include a Washington-based policy dialogue with the human rights and security community. As part of that effort, CSIS has organized a working group to develop solutions to the myriad legal, security and political problems posed by current detention policies for terrorist suspects held in the Guantanamo Bay facility. Our goal is to produce a policy memo in the spring of 2008 that will lay out a menu of options that systematically addresses questions of how to deal with the people there and the problems they pose. For each recommendation, we will discuss the pros and the cons, the challenges and the opportunities.
We also have begun a transatlantic policy dialogue on human rights and counterterrorism. In October 2007, we convened approximately 35 governmental and nongovernmental experts from the United States and Europe to parse through lessons learned from Northern Ireland and to begin to set an agenda for meetings in the 2008 and 2009 time period. We plan to convene in spring 2008 again in Berlin to address best practices in current counterterrorism efforts. We will also hold additional smaller meetings in Europe that focus on specific scenarios for how the counterterrorism community can better integrate human rights, even in times of crisis.
We also hope in 2008 to launch a series of efforts aimed at broadening the constituencies for international law and human rights in the United States and Europe through strategic communications based on focus groups and surveys of elites and the general population. We hope to work with interested partners in government and in NGOs to use these data to increase the knowledge and demand for human rights, international law and counterterrorism policies that are effective.
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