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Human Rights & Security

The impact of human rights 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.

The Human Rights and Security Initiative advances and explores the concept of human rights abuse as a security challenge through three projects: Human Trafficking and Peacekeeping Operations, Chechnya and North Caucasus, and Human Rights and Counterterrorism.

The Russia and Eurasia Program also addresses human rights issues through its Human Rights in Russia project.

49 Steps To Improve Human Rights and Security in the North Caucasus presents an abridged version of the dozens of recommendations generated by the network and the experts we have convened in a series of meetings held in Berlin at the Robert Bosch Stiftung between May 2005 and October 2006.

Using the tabs below you can find the latest information from CSIS on Human Rights & Security.

» Sarah E. Mendelson
Director, Human Rights and Security Initiative; Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

» Marc Sageman
Senior Associate (Non-resident), Europe Program, Human Rights and Security Initiative

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