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Thursday, 15 December 2016 - 12:00am Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Photo/Manuel Elias | The Security Council unanimously adopts resolution on reinforcing the preventive system to avoid the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) by non-State actors, particularly terrorists. Expressing concern over the threat of terrorism¡­

Wednesday, 14 December 2016 - 12:00am A growing number of United Nations Member States are assessing specific terrorist financing risks and the vulnerability of their financial and economic sectors to terrorist financing. Also Member States that are not at high risk in terms of terrorism more¡­

Thursday, 01 December 2016 - 12:00am Exploitation of the Internet and social media for terrorist purposes can only be defeated through sustained and comprehensive action involving the active participation and collaboration of Member States, international and regional organizations, civil society¡­

Monday, 07 November 2016 - 12:00am Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Photo/Rick Bajornas | General view of the Security Council meeting on the maintenance of international peace and security, and peace operations facing asymmetrical threats. Amid increased attacks from violent extremist and terrorist groups, the United Nations¡­

Sunday, 30 October 2016 - 12:00am Participants at the international conference, Internet and the Radicalization of Youth: Preventing, Acting and Living Together, organized by Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO 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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵAMA/Fardin Waezi | Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan Pernille Kardel. Following a meeting with Afghan civil society representatives today in Kabul, senior Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ officials stressed that securing women¡¯s rights is essential to strategies that combat¡­

Monday, 24 October 2016 - 12:00am Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ 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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Photo/Kim Haughton | Ant¨®nio 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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ General¡­

Thursday, 13 October 2016 - 12:00am Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ 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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ in support of its Member States to counter the¡­

Thursday, 01 September 2016 - 12:00am Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Photo/JC McIlwaine | Wide view of the General Assembly High-level Forum on the Culture of Peace. 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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ 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)¡­