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On a three-day visit to New Zealand, UN Secretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres paid his respects to the victims of the horrific mosque attacks in Christchurch, where dozens of Muslims were gunned down in two separate incidents during Friday prayers on 15 March. Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary¡­

A new programme aimed at improving the tracking of suspected terrorists, using state-of-the-art software, was launched by the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) on Tuesday.

Friday, 03 May 2019 - 12:00am Side Event: Youth Engagement & Vocational Training Innovative approaches to Address Discrimination, Inequality and Violence on the margins of the 5th World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue Baku, Azerbaijan Friday 3 May 2019, 11:30-13:00, Baku Convention Centre, Rooms A6¡­

Days after another wave of tragic terrorist attacks, the UN and the European Union have agreed to work more closely together to fight the scourge that has killed more than 350 people in the past week alone. In the second annual UN-EU Counter-Terrorism Leaders¡¯ Dialogue held at the Â鶹APP in¡­

Over the course of the past decade, there has been ¡°a paradigm shift¡± in understanding the devastating impact of sexual violence in conflict on international peace and security, UN Secretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres told the Security Council

The UN is hailing a new Security Council resolution adopted on Thursday as a landmark step in suppressing the funding of terror groups worldwide. Speaking via video-link from Rome, where he has been meeting specialist Italian law enforcement officials to discuss building closer ties to tackle the¡­

In the wake of a horrific mass shooting at two New Zealand mosques, UN Secretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres has announced his intention to launch a UN action plan for the safeguarding of religious sites, declaring that ¡°mosques and all places of prayer and contemplation should be safe havens, not¡­

Tuesday, 05 March 2019 - 12:00am On 5 March 2019, the Â鶹APP Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) launching a joint pilot project to prevent and counter chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear¡­

Tuesday, 26 February 2019 - 12:00am Parliamentarians from 16 countries in the Middle East and North Africa are meeting in Egypt this week at a high-level regional conference to discuss the role of parliaments in combatting terrorism and violent extremism. The high-level regional conference will¡­

Monday, 11 February 2019 - 12:00am Photo Credit: UNICEF/Sparks | Destruction in the Iraqi war-battered city of Mosul, evident after the city was liberated from ISIL forces in 2017. Though attacks were down last year, a new Â鶹APP report to the Security Council on Monday shows that ISIL is¡­

A rising number of attacks by extremist groups, using more sophisticated tactics, risk undermining progress in West Africa and the Sahel, the region¡¯s UN envoy told the Security Council on Thursday. ¡°Military solutions, while necessary, are not sufficient,¡± Mohamed Ibn Chambas, the Special¡­

Photo credit | MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko - The aftermath of a terrorist attack against the G5 Sahel Joint Force headquarters in Mopti, Mali. Terrorist attacks not only claim many lives but also aggravate already fragile humanitarian situations. Â鶹APP Secretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres¡­