The first meeting of the Regional Expert Council on Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Returnees from Conflict Zones in Central Asia was held on May 14 in Tashkent. The Regional Expert Council was established at the initiative of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Mr. Shavkat Mirziyoyev¡
Parliamentary Assemblies from around the world met in Istanbul to participate in the Fifth Counter-Terrorism Coordination Meeting, organized by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOCT) Programme Office on Parliamentary Engagement with the support of the Shura Council of the State of¡
Riyadh, 2 May 2024 ¨C Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Counter-Terrorism Centre (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCCT) of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOCT), the Naif Arab University for Security Sciences (NAUSS) and the Arab Interior Ministers Council (AIMC) Secretariat completed a regional capacity-building workshop on¡
From 29 April to 10 May 2024, the European Union ¨C United Nations Global Terrorism Threats Facility organized for the Republic of Malawi four, back-to-back study visits on inter-agency coordination to prevent and counter-terrorism to Nairobi, Abidjan, Gaborone, and Tunis. A joint EU-Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ initiative¡
From 23 to 26 April 2024, the Netherlands hosted a three-and-a-half-day tabletop exercise and workshop on radioactive incident response in The Hague. The event focused on supporting participating countries in the development of their forensics response to incidents related to radioactive or nuclear¡
On 22 April 2024, the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina Mohammed, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, Vladimir Voronkov, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOWAS) Leonardo Santos¡
A three-day ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Workshop on Strengthening legal frameworks to combat Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) terrorism took place from 16 to 18 April 2024, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The workshop aimed at strengthening the capacities of the ARF participants to¡
Members of terrorist and transnational organized crime groups, as well as foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) continue to exploit porous and uncontrolled borders, undermining Member States efforts to counter terrorism. A multilateral and coordinated approach to BSM is key in addressing the myriad of¡
On 11 April 2024, the EU-Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Global Terrorism Threats Facility, a joint initiative of the European Union and the United Nations implemented by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOCT), conducted a counter-terrorism tabletop exercise (TTX) in Kampala to help reinforce coordination and¡
The International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, celebrated annually on 6 April, recognizes the positive influence of sport in promoting peace, fostering development, and building community cohesion. The global theme for the 2024 commemoration is Sport for the Promotion of Peaceful and¡
From 1-4 April, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOCT completed the first phase of its CT TECH capacity-building with a workshop in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina. The event rounds off a series of 5 national capacity-building workshops conducted by the Office over the past four months in Trinidad and Tobago, Kenya, the Philippines¡
On 27 - 28 March 2024, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOCT and the Counter-Terrorism Preparedness Network (CTPN) in partnership with the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) organized a two-day table-top exercise in Vienna focused on a terrorist cyber-attack against critical infrastructure using generative Artificial¡
The Tenth Coordination Committee meeting of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact, 24 January 2024, New York, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵHQ.
