The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights is pleased to submit this input to the Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights, with a view to informing the latter’s Global Study on the Impact of Counter-Terrorism Measures on Civil Society and Civic Space. In this submission, attention is drawn to four issues that are less commonly considered in the context of counter-terrorism measures and relate to a lack of transparent, empirical decision-making and the over-extension and misuse of IHL in counter-terrorism operations.