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

Anne Charbord

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Dr. Anne Charbord (X) is an international human rights lawyer, focusing on human rights and security. She served as legal advisor to the mandate of the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights while countering terrorism. She is 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 bus in a US military convoy transporting Islamic State group detainees being transferred to Iraq from Syria moves along a road on the outskirts of Qahtaniyah in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on February 7, 2026. Iraq's judiciary announced on February 2 that it had begun investigations into more than 1,300 Islamic State group detainees who were transferred from Syria as part of a US operation. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP via Getty Images)
Members of Syrian security forces at the entrance of the al-Hol camp in the desert region of Hasakah province which holds around 24,000 people, including some 6,200 women and children from around 40 nationalities on January 21, 2026 in Al Hasakah, Syria. Syrian government forces have taken control over large swaths of northeast Syria amid clashes with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). In Al Hasakah governate, government forces have taken control of the infamous al-Hol (Al-Hawl) camp, previously controlled by the SDF, that houses families accused of having links to Islamic State fighters. (Photo by Abdulmonam Eassa/Getty Images)
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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