"There is no quick cure against terrorism"

"There is no quick cure against terrorism" 
So begins Widney Brown his personal reflection on the consequences of the attacks of 11 September 2001 Widney Brown is the director of Amnesty International's policy and legal department people and was in New York when the two hijacked planes flew into the World Trade Center's twin towers. 



Before the tenth day, she has made a summary of the human rights in the world has been affected by the last decade's war on terror. 

Widney Brown, Director of Policy and International Law at Amnesty International, there are many things I remember from the 11 September 2001 Like almost all New Yorkers, I remember the clear fresh air and the cloudless blue sky that day. I remember I went to work and thought of the busy day I had ahead of me. 

For me that day was just a day like any other. Another day on the job as a human rights activist. And then the first plane which emphasized New York's bright blue sky, flying too close, too close, too fast and too noisy. 

When I crossed Madison Avenue on my way to work in the Empire State Building, I could not imagine what the thundering jet above me would mean for my work over the next decade. 

Many, perhaps most, New Yorkers were brought together in that moment - across all divisions - and supported each other in grief and turmoil. We felt loss, confusion, and a desire to return to a time before the world seemed to fall apart. 

I walked along the streets of New York and saw people who were looking for them they lost, people who tried to understand. I saw the shock turn into sorrow and anger to sadness and back again. 

What we did not know was that our losses, our anger and our grief would be utilized for a fundamentally flawed idea - a global war against terrorism - which has resulted in untold damage and that dishonored the grief we felt that day and continue to feel ten years later. 

Like when governments began to discuss how to strengthen their laws to combat terrorism through to derail international humanitarian law principles - basic and essential principles that will protect us all from torture. Basic legal dismantled, people's fears were exploited and reinforced by politicians. 

Now, on the tenth anniversary, I write not only the memory of that day, but of how governments have used the terrible events and exploited the grief and anger to undermine fundamental values​​, promote fear and divide the world into "us and them". 

When the United States decided that torture was justified, turned to his close allies Egypt, well aware that the Egyptian security forces were masters of torture. When the Chinese government wanted to justify its repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang, they used suddenly the events of 11 September. European governments supported the illegal renditions and abductions, fully aware of the risk of torture for those sent. Political opportunism thrived across the world after September 11. 

Amina Janjua from Pakistan is a woman who knows all too well the consequences of this ill-conceived policy. Her husband, Masood, believed to have been held in government custody since he disappeared in 2005, on a bus on his way to Peshawar. He is among the hundreds of people who have disappeared and are believed to be detained after Pakistan joined the US-led "war on terror" in 2001. 

Meanwhile, those who support terrorism continued to ravage, to promote hatred, killing civilians and glorify violence in countries such as Tanzania, India, Spain, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, United Kingdom, Kenya, Somalia, Iraq, Norway and Morocco. 

Routine is often said that the measures that the American government has taken rather have helped to recruit people to organizations like Al-Qaeda. Whether this is true or not, we must ask ourselves: are governments around the world responded to this assault on human dignity by promoting the dignity and equality of everyone? Or have they defined a map of the world where respect for human dignity and life is dependent on nationality, religion, class, name or skin color? 

The governments that are part of the coalition fighting in Afghanistan tried to gain credibility by claiming that their purpose - in part - was to promote women's rights in Afghanistan. But when the war now dragging on growing willingness to negotiate with the Taliban, which is a real danger that women's rights do not get no more than a pawn in the bargaining game. 

There is no easy way to combat terrorism. But it is not easy to challenge governments' oppression. An oppression where people sorted into compartments where their origin determines whether their rights will be respected. 

Terrorism will not be stopped by building alliances with governments that control through fear and oppression. This is counterproductive and shows a cruel and lack of respect for the victims of this repression. 

Of course we condemn and upset over the loss of life that the terrorist attacks caused the 11 September 2001 and the attacks carried out later. But we should also feel dismay at the loss of freedoms and rights that occurred in the fight against terrorism, name the last ten years.