UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that the fight against terrorism will never succeed if we perpetuate the “denial and destruction” of human rights.
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Human rights must be defended in the fight against terrorism: UN chief
25 January 2023 -
Terrorism intensifying across Africa, exploiting instability and conflict
10 November 2022The growth of terrorism is a major threat to international peace and security, currently felt most keenly in Africa, the deputy UN chief told the Security Council on Thursday.
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UN Security Council boosts commitment to fight digital terror
29 October 2022A two-day meeting of the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee in India has ended with the adoption of a document committing Member States to prevent and combat digital forms of terror, notably using drones, social media, and online terrorist financing.
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UN counter-terrorism committee pays tribute to victims of worldwide attacks
28 October 2022“It is my appeal to all the representatives of States, to ensure there is no safe haven provided to any kind of terrorism whatsoever”: the words of Nidhi Chaphekar, a survivor of the 2016 Brussels terrorist attacks, opening a Special Meeting of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee in In
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Nearly half of world’s terror victims are African, with organised crime increasingly entrenched
06 October 2022The threat of terrorism and organised crime is becoming increasingly entrenched across Africa, the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime told the Security Council on Thursday, warning that illegal trafficking is depriving millions of a decent livelihood.
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UN meeting upholds need to remember and support victims of terrorism
08 September 2022Advancing the rights and needs of people whose lives have been upended by terrorism is the goal of a two-day meeting that opened at United Nations Headquarters in New York on Thursday.
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Da’esh, affiliates remain ‘global and evolving’ threat, Security Council hears
09 August 2022In a joint briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday, UN counterterrorism officials confirmed that the threat posed by Da’esh terrorist fighters and their affiliates remains “global and evolving”.
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Terrorist groups ‘exploiting power vacuums’, UN chief warns
08 June 2022While the number of deaths from terrorism has declined, the overall threat is far from over, particularly in Africa, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in New York on Wednesday.
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Human rights must be ‘front and centre’ in the fight against terrorism: Guterres
10 May 2022Responses to terrorism must be anchored in the rule of law, human rights, and gender equality to ensure their effectiveness, Secretary-General António Guterres told a UN-backed counter-terrorism meeting that opened in Málaga, Spain, on Tuesday.
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Battle against Da’esh, a ‘long-term game’, Voronkov tells Security Council
09 February 2022The global fight against the shadowy, ever-morphing threat posed by the ISIL terrorist group - known officially as Da’esh - and its affiliates, remains a “long-term game” for which there are “no quick fixes,” the UN counter-terrorism chief told the Security Council on Wednesday.
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