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(a) To enshrine the principles of gender-equality and non-discrimination in the design and implementation of all counter-terrorism measures, including addressing instances where gender inequality intersects with other prohibited grounds of discrimination and to combat conditions conducive to terrorism;

(b) To undertake all appropriate measures to investigate, document and monitor the gendered impacts of counter-terrorism measures on women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex individuals, including in reporting to inter-governmental organizations;

(c) To end impunity for all direct and collateral gender-based human rights violations in the name of countering terrorism, including economic, social and
cultural rights violations, and provide redress for victims, including through reparations schemes that are non-discriminatory and equality-enhancing and provide recognition for all forms of gendered harms, including for victims targeted on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity;

(d) To ensure accountability for gender-based abuses by terrorist groups and recognize gender-sensitive reparation schemes for victims of terrorism to ensure gender equality and end the dehumanization of victims of terrorism, one of the recognized conditions conducive to terrorism;

(e) To ensure that counter-terrorism measures do not extend to target or impede activities that do not constitute terrorism, such as the exercise of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association by women’s and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex human rights defenders;

(f) To abandon the use of a “war paradigm” when countering terrorism because of the adverse impacts it has on gender equality, as well as ensure that the privatization of counter-terrorism measures does not further impunity for gender based human rights violations;

(g) To repeal all counter-terrorism measures that sanction the unlawful detention and ill-treatment of women and children to produce information
concerning male family members suspected of terrorism;

(h) To guarantee the protection against arbitrary or unlawful interference with the family and privacy, including through ensuring that any laws that
criminalize material support and association with terrorists, or provide for the application of “control orders”, comply with the requirements of legality and judicial guarantees;

(i) To recognize and compensate the human rights violations, including of economic, social and cultural rights, of family members of those individuals who have been disappeared, or subjected to “extraordinary rendition” or to prolonged detention in the name of countering terrorism;

(j) To renounce the use of gender stereotypes as a proxy for profiling on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin or religion and promote human rights
education and training to reduce the stigma, harassment and discrimination faced by women because of profiling practices;

(k) To ensure that sanctions regimes incorporate humanitarian exemptions and that terrorism financing laws allow for accessible, safe and effective channels for funding, particularly for humanitarian aid, of organizations devoted to gender equality;

(l) To take all necessary legislative, administrative and other measures to prevent, investigate and punish the use of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in the name of countering terrorism, perpetrated on the basis of the sexual orientation or gender identity of the victim;

(m) To ensure that the rights of women and persons of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities are never used as a bartering tool to appease
terrorist or extremist groups;

(n) To guarantee the right to protection from all forms of exploitation, sale and trafficking of persons by separating counter-terrorism measures from
anti-trafficking initiatives to ensure that trafficked persons are neither criminalized nor stigmatized, and their human rights are ensured;

(o) To repeal restrictive immigration controls and asylum procedures that violate the human rights, including the right to freedom of movement, of
transgendered persons and immigrant and migrant women;

(p) To guarantee the right to asylum for those owed international protection because of gender-based persecution, including through ensuring that broad “material support” laws are not used to penalize individuals who have suffered gender-based abuses by terrorist groups;

(q) To recognize the role of women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex individuals as stakeholders and the benefit of including contextual feminist perspectives in the design and implementation of counter-terrorism measures and in combating terrorism, as well as the role of men in ensuring gender equality.

54. The Special Rapporteur submits the following recommendations to United Nations bodies:

(a) All relevant special procedures and other mechanisms of the Human Rights Council and human rights treaty bodies should integrate attention to gender and counter-terrorism into the implementation of their respective mandates;

(b) In particular, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women should incorporate the specific question of the impact of counter-terrorism on women in its examination of State reports and when formulating concluding observations and general comments;

(c) The Counter-Terrorism Committee, the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate and the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force should take explicit account of gender as a relevant human rights concern in all of their activities;

(d) The Security Council and its subsidiary bodies should continue the process of reforming the regime for listing individuals and entities as terrorist ones, in order to secure full compliance with human rights in the imposition and implementation of the ensuing sanctions, and include a gender assessment in that review.

In case you weren't sure, human gender is "changeable over time and contexts," sex slaves must not be "stigmatized" for their work, and it's important to recognize the role of "transgender and intersex individuals as stakeholders" in counterterrorism policy.

Those are some of the conclusions of a United Nations report on counterterrorism that is intended to promote human rights — but that critics say is designed to redefine gender and hamstring actual counterterror efforts.

Martin Scheinin, a special rapporteur for the U.N.'s Human Rights Council, filed his report in August after six months of studying the "complex relationship between gender equality and countering terrorism."

Scheinin recommends a radical reworking of counterterrorism policies, insisting that the U.N.'s member nations "abandon the 'war paradigm'" and "enshrine the principles of gender-equality and non-discrimination in the design and implementation of all counter-terrorism measures."

Among his proposals:

• "Repeal all counter-terrorism measures" that sanction the ill-treatment of women and children as a way to put pressure on terror suspects within their families.

• Loosen terror financing laws to ensure "safe and effective channels for funding ... of organizations devoted to gender equality"

• "Repeal restrictive immigration controls" that violate human rights by "unduly penalizing transgender persons whose personal appearance and data are subject to change" as their "self-defined gender identity" changes.

Critics say the suggestions are part of an "absolutely insane" agenda at the U.N. that too often seems intent on undermining efforts to blot out terrorism across the globe.

"I would be surprised and disturbed if the U.S. took any of these recommendations seriously," said Steven Groves, a fellow and international law expert at the Heritage Foundation.

"It seems an inescapable conclusion that their desire is to greatly weaken any effective counterterrorism measure that is made by the U.S. or its allies."

The report criticized enhanced security checks "that focus attention on male bombers who may be dressing as females to avoid scrutiny [and] make transgender persons" — who might also be crossdressing — "susceptible to increased harassment and suspicion."

"Once you put them into a form of an overall policy what you do is undermine the nature of counterterrorism," said Herb London, president of the Hudson Institute. "You're trying to thwart the ability of those to counter terrorist activity."

Scheinin is set to present his findings Monday morning to the U.N.'s 3rd Committee, which helps set policy on social and cultural issues and oversees the Human Rights Council for the world body.

The Finnish law professor has been a special rapporteur since 2005. This year he visited Egypt as part of his mandate for the 47-member Council, and criticized countries like Somalia and Pakistan for selling out women's rights to arrange a tenuous peace with Islamic militants.

Legal experts said it was important to consider the effects of security measures on human rights, including the question of gender.

"It does not strike me as ridiculous ... to look at policies through the lens of gender," said Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Wittes noted that gender issues — including the Taliban's vicious treatment of women — have made it virtually impossible for Western nations and Pakistan to have normal relations with the Taliban.

"That's not an inconsiderable criticism — it's a valid criticism," he said. But Wittes added that to place "gender rights at the center of (counterterrorism policy) is kind of an absurd proposition" that he said made the report ridiculous.

Schienen did not return requests for comment.

Past reports from the special rapporteur have focused on many issues relating to women — including the challenges faced by pregnant Palestinians trying to cross border checkpoints and the effects of counterterror measures on Chechnyan women.

But U.N. watchers say the new report is a confused amalgamation of important issues like women's rights and tangential ones that have very little real application, including Scheinin's demand that invasions like the U.S.'s "war on terror" in Afghanistan be "actually responsive to the concerns of women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex individuals in local contexts."

London, of the Hudson Institute, said that it was hopeless to look for moral guidance from a body composed of some of the world's most brutal and repressive regimes, including Saudi Arabia and China.

"The Human Rights Council and the nations that are represented on it, they're clearly involved in human rights violations," London told Foxnews.com. "They're going to be the arbiters of human rights?"

The Third Committee will hear reports from a number of its 36 special rapporteurs and pass on some of their recommendations to the General Assembly.

The committee hearings do not provide the force of law for Schienen's proposals, but some critics of the report say it represents a "stealth effort" to change international law and the meaning of gender by fiat.

"There might have been value in a report that addressed how counterterrorism efforts interact with the rights of women," said Peter Sprigg, a senior fellow at the Family Research Council.

"But by burdening this report with these extreme forms of social engineering, it makes the report kind of laughable."