HUMAN RIGHTS
Pavel Chacuk, Human Rights Adviser at ODIHR, gives a presentation on ODIHR Guidelines on Human Rights
Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, 24 January 2013. (OSCE)
involving Guantanamo detainees. The delegation also
met with civil society representatives and the defence
counsel of some former and current detainees. The
visit was part of ODIHR’s activities to assist OSCE
participating States in meeting their commitments to
respect human rights in the fight against terrorism by
safeguarding the rule of law, individual liberties and
the right to equal justice under the law. Following a
broader assessment of the human rights situation of
the detainees in Guantanamo, ODIHR plans to produce a public report with
its findings and recommendations in 2014.
Jointly with the OSCE
TNTD/SPMU, ODIHR
launched in November
the publication Human
Rights in Counter-Terrorism Investigations: A
Practical Manual for Law
Enforcement Officers. The
tool adopts an operational
approach to explore the different phases of counterterrorism investigations and their potential impact on
human rights. It covers issues such as informationgathering and intelligence; witnesses and crime scene
examination; the arrest, detention and questioning
of terrorism suspects; and the integrity and accountability of investigations. It complements ODIHR’s
publication Countering Terrorism, Protecting Human
Rights, which focuses on the international human
rights standards and OSCE commitments applicable
in the anti-terrorism context.
In 2013 ODIHR and the OSCE TNTD Action against
Terrorism Unit (ATU) published two reports, on
Women and Terrorist Radicalization (available in Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, English, Russian and S
erbian)
and on Youth Engagement to Counter Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism (available
in English and Russian). The reports present the key
findings and recommendations from a series of expert
meetings on these issues held in 2011 and 2012.
In April, ODIHR and the OSCE Border Management Staff College conducted a week-long training
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