About
Dr Anne Charbord is an internationally recognised human rights lawyer with over twenty years of experience providing strategic and legal advice to international organisations, independent human rights experts, civil society actors and victims of human rights violations in the fields of human rights law, humanitarian law, transitional justice and counter-terrorism. She has extensive field experience, including on investigating and reporting on human rights violations through fact-finding missions, particularly in the Balkans, Central and South Asia, and the Middle East. She has prepared legal and advocacy briefs for international independent human rights experts and represented experts before national, regional and international courts and has significant experience in drafting reports presented to the UN General Assembly and the UN Human Rights Council as well as policy briefs for UN executive bodies. She has provided oral and written evidence to parliamentary commissions and written amicus briefs, OpEds, press releases and position papers for independent experts.
She has held senior positions within Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and at the OSCE in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Kosovo, and was nominated by UNHCR as a judge in the French court in charge of deciding on asylum and refugee cases (CNDA). She teaches human rights and counter-terrorism at Sciences Po-PSIA (Paris), at the University of Strasbourg, at the European Master’s in Human Rights and Democratization (EMA) at the Global Campus for Human Rights and at the Vienna Master of Arts in Human Rights. She has extensively published, including on issues related to the misuse of terrorism legislation.
She obtained her PhD in international law at the University of Vienna.
Publications
Articles and Blogs
- “A Legal Black Hole: Does Iraq Have the Right to Detain Prisoners Transferred from Northeast Syria?”, with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Just Security, 11 February 2026
- “We Told You So: Now What for Northeast Syria?” with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Just Security, 27 January 2026
- “Transitional Justice in Contexts where Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism are part of the Discourse”, Key expert papers developed to inform the UN Secretary-General Guidance Note on Transitional Justice (https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/transitionaljustice/sg-guidance-note/7th-tj-ct.pdf)
- “Repatriating Alleged ISIS-Linked Men from Northeast Syria: The Start of Judicial Responses to the Political Stalemate”, with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Just Security, 16 February 2023
- “The European Court Tackles the Horny Issue of Family Repatriation from Northeast Syria”, with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Just Security, 22 September 2022
- “In Belarus, Who’s the Terrorist? Another Step in the Crackdown on Journalists”, with Jeanne Sultzer, Just Security, 8 June 2021
- “Judgement in the Begum Case: A Good Day for the Protection of Human Rights”, with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Just Security, 16 July 2020
- “The role of measures to address terrorism and violent extremism on closing civic space”, co-authored with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Human Rights Centre of the University of Minnesota Law School, June 2019
- “The right to social security and pensions”, in Incorporating the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement into Domestic Law: Issues and Challenges Edited by Walter Kälin, Rhodri C.Williams, Khalid Koser, and Andrew Solomon (2008)
Books
- “Transitional justice (increasingly) meets counter-terrorism” with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Research Handbook on Transitional Justice: Second Edition. Edward Elgar Publishing (August 2023), p. 473-490
- Using Human Rights to Counter Terrorism (Elgar Studies in Human Rights), Co-edited with Manfred Nowak, Edward Elgar Publishing House (March 2018)
- “Art. 4 - The Prohibition of Torture”, with Manfred Nowak in Peers S. and others (eds.), The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: A Commentary (Hart Publishing 2014), p. 67
- “The Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, Verlag Österreich (2005)