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The human rights implications of international listing mechanisms for 'terrorist' organisations (pdf)
Professor Bill Bowring, Birkbeck College, University of London, background paper for OSCE/UN Expert Workshop on International Cooperation in Counter-terrorism, 15-17 November 2006 (Final report published February 2007, see pages 75-114).

Targeted Sanctions and Due Process (pdf)
Bardo Fassbender, Associate Professor of Law, Institute of International and European Law, Humboldt University Berlin, Study commissioned by the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, March 2006.

The ECHR, Due Process and UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Sanctions (pdf)
Professor Iain Cameron, Council of Europe, February 2006

Sanctions of the Security Council Against Individuals – Some Human Rights Problems (pdf)
Noah Birkhäuser, European Society of International Law (2005)

Terrorising the rule of law: the policy and practice of proscription (pdf)
Ben Hayes, Statewatch, June 2005

Terrorist Designation with Regard to European and International Law: The Case of the PMOI (pdf)
Joint Opinion by Prof. Bill Bowring, Director of Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute, London Metropolitan University and Prof. Douwe Korff, Professor of International Law, London Metropolitan University, November 2003.

Excerts from "Thematic Report on counter-terrorism"
EU Network of Independent Experts in Fundamental Rights (March 2003), compiled by Statewatch. See also full Thematic Report (pdf).

The EU's Common Positions on terrorism - an absence of legal and democratic accountability
Statewatch, January 2002

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