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.
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“One reason why there is increasing international interest in the prison context and work with prisoners is because of the role prisons can play in preventing radicalization to terrorism and terrorist recruitment and in ensuring that proper attention is paid to the rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners,”
“Throughout history, terrorists have sought to bolster their ranks by radicalizing others to violence, especially young people. What is different today is the immense speed and range of those radicalization efforts, a process facilitated by the fastest, broadest expansion of mass communications in human history.”
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 Central Asia on “Obtaining Electronic Evidence from the Internet Service Providers (SPs) in Counter-Terrorism and related Organized Crime Cross-Border Investigations”
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 Assoc
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 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.
This past year, the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) co-organized six regional and national workshops around the world about enhancing Cooperation and Strengthening Capacity in Obtaining Digital Evidence from Internet Service Providers (SPs) in Counter-Terrorism and related Organized Crime Cross-Border Investigations.