CGCC’s work emphasizes the inherent linkages among respect for human rights, good governance, and effectively combating terrorism and aims to address the tensions that sometimes emerge among these concepts in practice. CGCC has provided analysis and recommendations for better integrating human rights considerations into the UN counterterrorism program, including to the Security Council’s sanctions regime. CGCC also conducts human rights–focused trainings as part of its capacity-building work in different regions around the world. For example, in 2011, CGCC piloted a four-day training seminar in Uganda on human rights–compliant interrogation techniques. In 2012, CGCC and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark cohost a conference that focused on various human rights issues, identifying guidance to ensure those standards are upheld, as part of ongoing efforts to build capabilities to address counterterrorism and human rights issues in third countries.
The Global Center and the National School of Administration and Magistracy (know as ENAM) held a first training series on the topic of good governance and access to justice in countering terrorism in Cameroon. The two-track training program was delivered to magistrates and civilian administrators from across the country over...
In the Sahel, weak law enforcement capacities, vast ungoverned territories, and underdeveloped criminal justice systems have contributed to the proliferation of nonstate armed groups. This report builds on a set of recommendations unanimously adopted by the chief justices of the Sahel and features contributions from supreme court justices from the...
Over 26-29 June, the UN General Assembly held its sixth biennial review of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. The Global Center hosted, supported, and participated in a number high-level events highlighting the positive steps taken on certain fronts in relation to the implementation of the Strategy and the impact of...
Civil society organizations represent a bulwark against violent extremism. Within South and Central Asia, a vibrant and independent civil society has been working to tackle many of the ongoing development, political, and socioeconomic challenges that often give rise to an environment conducive to violent extremism. This report captures key lessons,...
This report discusses the important role supreme court justices play in strengthening state capacities to bring terrorists to justice within the framework of human rights and the rule of law. It discusses common challenges and strategies raised by justices over the course of an 18-month program in the Euro-Med region...
The Global Center delivered its second pilot training course on effective interview and interrogation techniques for senior criminal justice practitioners in partnership with the International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law and Human Rights First in Valletta, Malta. Over the course of the training participants engaged with issues...
The Global Center held two separate events on the role of women in preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) on consecutive days for the greater UN community. First, the Global Center cohosted a workshop with the Permanent Mission of Australia to the United Nations on women and P/CVE in the...
The Global Center delivered its second pilot training course on the use and protection of intelligence in criminal investigations and prosecutions. Over the course of the training, representatives from the judiciary, police, and intelligence services of Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Niger, and Tunisia actively engaged with issues pertaining to the acquisition,...
Global Center Analyst, Matthew Schwartz presented a discussion paper as part of a two-day conference on human rights and security challenges in Arab countries hosted by the National Human Rights Committee of Qatar with the support of the Arab Council of Interior Ministers, the General Secretariat of the League of...
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