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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)¡­

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵODC | Yury Fedotov (second left), Executive Director of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Office on Drugs and Crime (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵODC), 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¡­

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Photo/Rick Bajornas | Jean-Paul Laborde, Executive Director of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ 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¡­

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ General Assembly today adopted a resolution on the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ 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¡­

The unprecedented levels of terrorism and violent extremism on a global scale requires balanced implementation of commitments made through collective action, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today emphasized, calling on the international community to act with unity and resolve to address ¡°this major¡­

Wednesday, 29 June 2016 - 9:00am Kidnapping for ransom (KFR) is a growing threat, and States in northern, eastern and Sahel regions of Africa, in particular, are witnessing a rise in KFR incidents that could fund terrorist organizations. In order to help address the threat, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCCT has launched a¡­

Wednesday, 29 June 2016 - 12:00am Kidnapping for ransom is a growing threat, and States in northern, eastern and Sahel regions of Africa, in particular, are witnessing a rise in KFR incidents that could fund terrorist organizations. In order to help address the threat, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCCT has launched a¡­