The links and documents in this section relate primarily to UNSCR 1373 which, among its provisions, obliges all sates to criminalize assistance for terrorist activities, deny financial support and safe haven to terrorists and share information about groups planning terrorist attacks. It has been included because it relates closely to the non-proliferation aims of implementing national measures and includes a number of resources that states may find useful, such as guides to best practice and model laws.
The text of the resolution can be accessed in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
UNSCR 1373 established the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) in the Security Council to monitor the implementation of the resolution by all states and to increase the capability of states to fight terrorism, including bringing member states to an acceptable level of compliance with the terrorism-related conventions and protocols. The CTC has since become the United Nations’ leading body to promote collective action against international terrorism. In carrying out its functions, the Committee is supported by the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED).
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has addressed issues pertaining to international terrorism and related international cooperation for a number of years. In 2002, the General Assembly approved an expanded programme of activities for the Terrorism Prevention Branch (TPB) of UNOSC. The expanded programme focuses on the provision of assistance to states, upon request, in the legal and related aspects of counter-terrorism, especially for ratifying and implementing the universal legal instruments against terrorism and for strengthening the capacity of the national criminal justice systems to apply the provisions of these instruments in compliance with the principles of the rule of law.
The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 60/288 of 8 September 2006, among other things, encourages states to resort to the technical assistance delivered by UNODC. The objective of these activities is to strengthen the legal regime against terrorism. The scope of assistance provided through this project has been broadening, in terms of its geographical reach, the number of States receiving assistance and the substantive content of the assistance provided. Increasingly more attention is being paid to implementation assistance, as more States ratify the universal instruments.
Project activities address:
Other technical assistance tools are also being developed, including:
Directory of International Best Practices, Codes and Standards
Terrorism Prevention Branch
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Vienna International Centre
P.O. Box 500
A-1400 Vienna
Austria
Tel.: +43 1 26060 5604
Fax: +43 1 26060 5968
E-mail: Terrorism Prevention Branch
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an inter-governmental body whose purpose is the development and promotion of national and international policies to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. The FATF is therefore a "policy-making body" created in 1989 that works to generate the necessary political will to bring about legislative and regulatory reforms in these areas. The FATF has published 40 + 9 Recommendations in order to meet this objective.
The FATF has identified the following set of best practices which are based on jurisdictions’ experience to date and which may serve as a benchmark for developing institutional, legal, and procedural frameworks of an effective terrorist financing freezing regime.3 These best practices are organized along five basic themes and complement the obligations set forth in the Interpretative Note. A common element to each of these themes is the importance of sharing terrorist financing information.
FATF / GAFI
2, rue André Pascal
75775 Paris Cedex 16
France
or use the following e-mail address:
Contact@fatf-gafi.org
http://www.fatf-gafi.org/
There is also a French version of the website that can be accessed through this link.
States can find out more about effective national export systems to help stem the proliferation of NBC weapons and materials in NIM tools: export controls.
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