<span class="vcard">Anne Charbord</span>

Anne Charbord

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Dr. Anne Charbord (@ACharbord) is an international human rights lawyer, focusing on human rights and security. She is currently legal advisor to the mandate of the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights while countering terrorism, and a visiting scholar at the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota Law School. She teaches human rights and counter-terrorism at SciencesPo (PSIA) in Paris, and was recently nominated by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR, the U.N. Refugee Agency) to serve as a judge in the Cour Nationale du Droit d’Asile (French asylum court). She has co-edited with Manfred Nowak Using Human Rights to Counter Terrorism (Edward Elgar Publishing, March 2018). Previously, she worked for the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

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A youth looks out through a metal fence as she stands in the rain in front of a campground.
Belarusians living in Poland and Poles supporting them hold up a placard reading 'Free Roman Protasevich' during a demonstration in front of the European Commission office in Warsaw on May 24, 2021, demanding freedom for Belarus opposition activist Roman Protasevich a day after a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius carrying the dissident journalist was diverted while in Belarusian airspace. The demonstrators wear face masks.
Renu Begum, eldest sister of Shamima Begum, 15, holds her sister's photo as she is interviewed by the media at New Scotland Yard.

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