Human Rights
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.
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New York, NYPreventing Terrorism and Violent Extremism: Lessons Learned From Multilateral Efforts on Women, Peace, and Security
Within the realm of terrorism, women can play the role of sympathizer, mobilizer, ideologue, preventer, and perpetrator. Therefore, women as a group must be considered during the development of effective policies and programs to prevent terrorism and counter violent extremism. CGCC hosted a special panel and roundtable discussion to explore...
Publications
Promoting Organizational Change to Ensure Respect for Human Rights While Countering Terrorism
This policy brief explores how basic principles of organizational change can help intelligence and law enforcement agencies weed out human rights abuses and build organizational cultures that promote, rather than undermine, human rights and the rule of law in their efforts to counter terrorism....
Events
Addis Ababa, EthiopiaFirst Annual Convention of Counter-Terrorism Practitioners in Eastern Africa and the Horn
CGCC and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development Security Sector Program brought together more than 100 counterterrorism practitioners, academics, diplomats, journalists, and members of civil society for this first annual convention. The convention provided an opportunity for counterterrorism practitioners to consider evolving threats and challenges in the subregion, develop joint responses,...
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New York, NYMainstreaming Human Rights Compliant-Interrogation Skills in East African Countries
This closed-door discussion brought together representatives of UN member states and agencies such as the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate and the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force to discuss how to encourage innovative approaches to integrating respect for human rights into counterterrorism efforts worldwide. The meeting focused on a training seminar organized...
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New York, NYCGCC Briefing for EU Council on Counterterrorism Strategies for East Africa
At the invitation of the Danish Foreign Ministry, CGCC Co-Director James Cockayne briefed the EU Council’s counterterrorism configuration on possible counterterrorism strategies for East Africa. Cockayne highlighted the work of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Security Sector Program and CGCC collaborations with IGAD on the ground over the last...
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Kampala, UgandaTraining Seminar on Advanced Interrogation Skills in Counterterrorism
CGCC and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Security Sector Program cohosted a four-day interactive training seminar on human rights–compliant interrogation techniques. The seminar included officials from Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda drawn from the national security services, police, national counterterrorism centers, and the Joint Anti-Terrorism...
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New York, NYRetreat on UN Counterterrorism Efforts
CGCC convened key stakeholders to discuss the current progress and future direction of UN counterterrorism efforts. This retreat provided an opportunity for discussion among a small group of senior policymakers from within the UN Secretariat and agencies, Security Council, and General Assembly....
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Brussels, BelgiumEU Support for the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy and Human Rights
CGCC hosted this seminar in cooperation with the Directorate for External Relations of the European Commission, focused on raising awareness of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, particularly its human rights elements, and how the European Union’s work on counterterrorism while promoting and protecting human rights are compatible with the...
Events
New York, NYCounterterrorism and Human Rights: Opportunities to Improve U.S. and UN Policy
CGCC and Human Rights First cosponsored this meeting at the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld, and it was the first in a series of workshops and briefings that CGCC planned to hold over the year on counterterrorism and human rights. The primary objective of the project was...
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