A new UN report underscores the “lack of a robust scientific basis” for policies and practices aimed at preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE), as well as the “complete absence of human rights-based monitoring and
In her report Safeguarding Medical Care and Humanitarian Action in the UN Counterterrorism Framework, Alice Debarre poses the question of how UN and UN member state counterterrorism frameworks affect and interact with International Humanitarian Law (IHL). She
The United Nations' new Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association Clement Voule has released his first report to the Human Rights Council. In it, he identifies eight global trends with regard
The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued final regulations (83 Fed. Reg. 30541, 31 CFR part 583) to implement the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (Pub. L. 114-328, Title XII, Subtitle F)
In July 2016, Maina Kiai, Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, visited the United States on an official mission to assess the civil society’s freedoms of assembly
"The world has witnessed an alarming rise in restrictions placed on civil society actors to curtail their space and operations, impeding upon the realization of their rights to the freedom of expression, association, and
It has been said of the UN that “what happens in Geneva stays in Geneva.” But what about New York? Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights
In the first report since her appointment in August 2017, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, details the relationship between states
Just three days before International Human Rights Day, Charity & Security Network joined CIVICUS Alliance, the International Center for Not-For-Profit Law ICNL) and a defendant in the J20 criminal trial stemming from the Inauguration
Charity & Security Network is proud to be a research partner on the CIVICUS Monitor, a real-time portal to information about the state of civil society around the world. As the North American research partner, Charity &
