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Antiterrorism Strategies and Protecting Human Rights

Leaders around the world—dictators and democrats alike—are telling their citizens to choose between security and freedom. But the real choice is between a world in which human rights are universally respected and one in which no one is safe.
Editorial
BY HINA JILANI
Hina Jilani, who founded the first female law firm in Pakistan, is the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights defenders.
The laws and strategies that many countries are adopting in the name of the “war on terrorism” are gaining an alarming degree of acceptability and portending dim prospects for promoting human rights. In the post-9/11 world, infringements of core rights—rights that may not be violated, even during a public emergency—are not being called into question. Many states are using emergency measures to impose laws that permit arbitrary detention; that fail to ensure free and fair trial; that allow action against non-citizens dis...