The Human Rights and Counterterrorism Project addresses policy recommendations in the United States and Europe that both uphold human rights standards and international law while keeping citizens safe
Featured Resource: DoJ Statistics on Unsealed International Terrorism and Terrorism-Related Convictions
Featured Publication: Past the Deadline on Guantánamo
Published January 25, 2010
On his second day in office, President Obama signed an executive order that reflects recommendations put forth in Closing Guantánamo: From Bumper Sticker to Blueprint, a report of the CSIS Working Group on Guantánamo and Detention Policy. The President’s action is a powerful and dramatic first step toward closing the detention facility.
CSIS launched the Human Rights and Counterterrorism project in summer 2007 as a collaborative effort between human rights, legal and counterterrorism communities. The project seeks to develop policy recommendations that uphold both human rights standards and international law while keeping citizens safe in the United States and Europe.
Report by Craig Cohen, Josiane Gabel, and Tim Adams, Jon Alterman, David Berteau, Ernest Bower, Meredith Broadbent, Victor Cha, Heather Conley, Jennifer Cooke, Stephen Flanagan, Charles Freeman, Nathan Freier, Bonnie Glaser, Michael Green, John Hamre, Karl Inderfurth, Richard Jackson — June 15, 2011
Critical Questions by Sarah E. Mendelson — January 27, 2010
Report by Sarah E. Mendelson, Ken Gude(Center for American Progress) — January 25, 2010
Commentary by Sarah E. Mendelson — October 26, 2007