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United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy ( ) is a unique global instrument to enhance national, regional and international efforts to counter terrorism. Through its adoption by consensus in 2006, all UN Member States agreed to a common strategic and operational approach to fighting terrorism.
The Strategy sends a clear message that terrorism is unacceptable in all its forms and manifestations, and that Member States have resolved to take practical steps, individually and collectively, to prevent and combat terrorism. Those practical steps include a wide array of measures ranging from strengthening States’ capacity to counter terrorist threats to better coordinating the UN System’s counter-terrorism architecture and activities.
Pillars of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in the form of a resolution and an annexed Plan of Action is composed of 4 pillars, namely:
1. Measures to address the conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism.
2. Measures to prevent and combat terrorism.
3. Measures to build States’ capacity to prevent and combat terrorism and to strengthen the role of the United Nations system in that regard.
4. Measures to ensure respect for human rights for all and the rule of law as the fundamental basis of the fight against terrorism.
Eighth biennial review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
The United Nations General Assembly reviews the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy every two years, making it a living document attuned to Member States’ counter-terrorism priorities. The review of the Strategy represents an opportunity for Member States to renew international commitment to multilateral efforts to counter terrorism, take stock of progress in implementing the Strategy in the past two years and identify further areas requiring attention over the next two years.
In 2023, Member States will undertake the eighth review of the Strategy.
All Member States partake in the review of the Strategy as part of the work of the General Assembly. To assist in the steering of this intergovernmental process, the President of the General Assembly has appointed the Permanent Representatives of Canada and Tunisia to act as co-facilitators. UNOCT supports the co-facilitators as a substantive secretariat.
The General Assembly will hold a final plenary meeting on 22-23 June 2023 for the review of the Strategy and to consider the adoption of a resolution. This will be the second of three interrelated segments of the Third Counter-Terrorism Week at the United Nations, which will be held from 19 to 23 June 2023 in New York, and which will start with the Third High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States from 19 to 20 June 2023. Approximately 26 side events will also be held at the margins of the Counter-Terrorism Week.
In anticipation of the review, the Secretary-General submitted a report, as requested by the General Assembly, on the Activities of the United Nations System in implementing the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy and suggestions for its future implementation ( ), covering the period of January 2021 to December 2022, and issued in February 2023.
The report includes the following supplementary information in its annexes:
· Annex II: Supplementary information: assessment pursuant to paragraph 86, resolution , on the need to further enhance the integration of the rule of law, human rights and gender, as cross-cutting elements of the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, in the counter-terrorism efforts of the United Nations system in order to strengthen their effectiveness, including the need for internal advisory or monitoring and evaluation capacity in this regard.
· Annex III: Supplementary information: assessment pursuant to paragraph 93, resolution , on the methodologies and tools for a results framework to ensure comprehensive, balanced and integrated implementation of the Strategy by the entities subordinate to the General Assembly.
· Annex IV: Supplementary information: Executive summary of “Málaga Conference outcome document” (outcome of the held on 10-11 May 2022 in Málaga, Spain)
The preparation of the abovementioned Secretary-General’s report benefitted from submissions from Member States and international and regional organizations on their efforts, as well as inputs from civil society organizations gathered by UNOCT through public calls for feedback in 2022.