4 February 2020 – On Tuesday, Yuliya Denissenko, an independent expert on preventing and countering violent extremism and the Director of a Kyrgyzstan-based NGO “Asia Group Foundation”, briefed the Counter-Terrorism Committee on her work on rehabilitation and reintegration in Central Asia, focusing on returning and repatriated foreign terrorist fighters and associated family members, including young children.
Counter-Terrorism Committee holds open meeting on countering terrorist narratives and preventing the use of the Internet for terrorist purposes
From 17-18 December 2019, in the context of the global initiative on digital evidence, the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) jointly organized with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the regional workshop for criminal-justice practitioners of [...]
On 12 December 2019, CTED, in cooperation with the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) and the Australian Permanent Mission to the UN, held a roundtable meeting to discuss the Global Terrorism Index 2019. The roundtable provided an opportunity for CTED to brief Member States and UN entities on its work on trends and [...]
The Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), acting on behalf of the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee, conducted its first comprehensive assessment visit to the Republic of Poland from 9 to 13 December 2019. The visit focused on assessing Poland’s implementation of Security Council resolutions 1373 (2001), 1624 (2005) and 2178 (2014), as well as [...]
The United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) launched a new publication called Guidelines to facilitate the use and admissibility as evidence in national criminal courts of information collected, handled, preserved and shared by the military to prosecute terrorist offences (“Military Evidence”). Security Council resolution 2396 (2017) calls upon Member States to [...]
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Country Office Pakistan (COPAK) and Terrorism Prevention Branch (TPB), the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) and the National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA-Pakistan) organized a National Workshop on Obtaining Electronic Evidence from Private Communications Service Providers (CSPs) in Counter-Terrorism and related [...]
On 20 June 2019, EuroMed Justice hosted the final conference of the EuroMed Justice project in Madrid, Spain. EuroMed Justice is an EU-funded project. Since the start of phase I of the project in 2004, the project promoted judicial cooperation between Europe and the Mediterranean region throughout the four different project phases. The conference was [...]
On 28 June 2019, the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC)/ Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) concluded a second follow-up visit to Morocco. Morocco was the first country assessed by CTED on behalf of the CTC in 2005. Since then, CTED conducted follow-up visits in 2013 and now in 2019. The three-day visit was led by Assistant Secretary-General [...]
On 27 June 2019, the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) hosted an Open briefing on “Protection of soft targets through local engagement and public-private partnerships.” The meeting featured representatives from the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF), the Strong Cities Network, [...]
