Sunday, 30 October 2016 - 12:00am Participants at the international conference, Internet and the Radicalization of Youth: Preventing, Acting and Living Together, organized by UNESCO and the Government of Quebec in Quebec City, Canada, from 30 October to 1 November, have reaffirmed the positive…
Wednesday, 26 October 2016 - 12:00am UNAMA/Fardin Waezi | Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan Pernille Kardel. Following a meeting with Afghan civil society representatives today in Kabul, senior UN officials stressed that securing women’s rights is essential to strategies that combat…
Monday, 24 October 2016 - 12:00am UN Photo/Cia Pak | Special Rapporteur on promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism Ben Emmerson. Presenting his new report to the General Assembly, the United Nations expert on counter-terrorism and human rights has…
Wednesday, 19 October 2016 - 12:00am UN Photo/Kim Haughton | António Guterres, Secretary-General-designate, speaks to journalists at the General Assembly stakeout following his appointment by acclamation to serve as the next Secretary-General of the United Nations. On 13 October 2016, the UN General…
Thursday, 13 October 2016 - 12:00am UN Photo/Rick Bajornas | Wide view of the Security Council during its meeting on the threat posed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, Da'esh) to international peace and security and on the efforts of the UN in support of its Member States to counter the…
Thursday, 01 September 2016 - 12:00am UN Photo/JC McIlwaine | Wide view of the General Assembly High-level Forum on the Culture of 色库TV. Drawing attention to violence and terrorism affecting many parts of the world, the President of the United Nations General Assembly today underscored that…
Tuesday, 23 August 2016 - 12:00am UN Photo/Kim Haughton | Mubinoddin Shaikh, former Taliban radical, addresses the General Assembly High-level Thematic Conversation on Children and Youth affected by Violent Extremism. When he was 19, Mubin Shaikh, believed that “you could change the world overnight…
Friday, 05 August 2016 - 12:00am OCHA/Ivo Brandau | IDP site in Mellia, Chad. Attacks by Boko Haram and counter-insurgency measures in the Lake Chad Basin have displaced more than 2.5 million people in four countries. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has commended the European Union (EU)…
UNODC | Yury Fedotov (second left), Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), at a special event marking World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. The threat of terrorism has expanded and become increasingly decentralized and diffuse throughout the past 10 years, the top United…
OCHA/Ivo Brandau | In Tagal, Chad, an IDP community meets under a tree. More than 100 persons had to flee from one of the small islands in Lake Chad after Boko Haram insurgents attacked their village. To bring an end to the Boko Haram threat in the Lake Chad Basin region, affected countries must…
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas | Jean-Paul Laborde, Executive Director of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), briefs press on flow of foreign terrorist fighters and recent terror attacks. With more than 30,000 foreign terrorist fighters from some 100 countries around the world…
The United Nations General Assembly today adopted a resolution on the UN Global Counter Terrorism Strategy, with the aim of security peace and prosperity for succeeding generations. The 15-page resolution, adopted by consensus, “calls upon Member States, the United Nations and other appropriate…