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Terrorism
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In the aftermath of September 11, the United Nations has intensified its focus on terrorism.
The Security Council has adopted important resolutions aimed at prohibiting support to groups and individuals involved in terrorist activities and strengthening international engagement in the fight against terrorism.
Resolution 1373, adopted on September 28, 2001, calls upon all member states to criminalize assistance for terrorist activities and to counteract the financing of terrorists and terrorist organizations. The Counter-Terrorism Committee was established to monitor the implementation of the resolution and to increase the ability of states to fight terrrorism.
The General Assembly continues its work negotiating international conventions to supplement earlier UN counterterrorism conventions.
For more information on the UN work against terrorism, see DagDok: Terrorism and Human Rights.
Documentation
UN Counter-Terrorism Conventions can be accessed through the United Nations Treaty Collection. Conventions on Terrorism.
General Assembly resolutions against terrorism: General AssemblyActions to Counter Terrorism.
Security Council resolutions against terrorism: Security Council Actions to Counter Terrorism.
The official web site of the Counter-Terrorism Committee contains background information, full text statements, documents and reports, best practices and international instruments and links to relevant UN bodies and organizations.
Reports and statements by the Secretary-General: Efforts by the Secretary-General to Counter Terrorism.
Yearbook of the United Nations, Part Four: Legal Questions. Chapter: Legal Aspects of International Political Relations provides an overview of UN action against terrorism with a detailed subject index. A complete collection of yearbooks is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva. Since October 2008 the complete full text collection of The United Nations Yearbooks is available online at http://unyearbook.un.org/.
Databses and Indexes
A web portal of UN Action against terrorism with background information, full text reports and conventions and other relevant documentation is posted at the UN official web site.
Electronic Legal Resources on International Terrorism is a database containing counter-terrorism conventions, national criminal laws and case laws relevant to terrorism
Issues on the UN Agenda, Terrorism at the official web site of the United Nations serves as a web portal linking to UN main bodies and focal points and relevant documentation.
The UN Library online catalogue UNBISnet contains reports, documents and articles related to terrorism with links to full texts for recent years. Subject search can be performed using relevant terms from the UNBIS THESAURUS.