On 11 April 2024, the EU-UN Global Terrorism Threats Facility, a joint initiative of the European Union and the United Nations implemented by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), conducted a counter-terrorism tabletop exercise (TTX) in Kampala to help reinforce coordination and…
The International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, celebrated annually on 6 April, recognizes the positive influence of sport in promoting peace, fostering development, and building community cohesion. The global theme for the 2024 commemoration is Sport for the Promotion of Peaceful and…
From 1-4 April, UNOCT completed the first phase of its CT TECH capacity-building with a workshop in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina. The event rounds off a series of 5 national capacity-building workshops conducted by the Office over the past four months in Trinidad and Tobago, Kenya, the Philippines…
On 27 - 28 March 2024, UNOCT and the Counter-Terrorism Preparedness Network (CTPN) in partnership with the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) organized a two-day table-top exercise in Vienna focused on a terrorist cyber-attack against critical infrastructure using generative Artificial…
The United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT) of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) convened a training course on “Operational measures to address terrorism-arms-crime nexus” on 12-15 March 2024 in Astana. The event…
Our Commitment to Gender Equality Achieving gender equality remains integral to the viability and success of countering terrorism around the world. The full, equal, meaningful, and safe participation of women is therefore essential to countering terrorism and preventing violent extremism (CT/PCVE)…
The United Nations of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and Iraq’s Office of the National Security Advisor (ONSA) co-organized a workshop on “Monitoring and Reporting on Human Rights in Counter-Terrorism” from 5 to 7 March 2024, in Bagdad. The workshop brought together Iraqi and international experts to…
UNOCT’s e-learning platform “ Connect & Learn” was recognized as the Learning Platform of the Year at the 2024 Learning Awards. The awards are presented annually by the Learning and Performance Institute in the United Kingdom and consideredas “the highest accolade in workplace learning and…
The United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT) of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), held a three-day regional workshop for the Sahel in Rabat, Morocco from 27 to 29 February 2024. Organized within the framework of the project on “Building capacity to eliminate the supply…
From 26 February to 7 March 2024, the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, under its CT TECH initiative convened national workshops for the Philippines and Uzbekistan to strengthen national counter-terrorism policy and operational responses to counter the use of new technologies for terrorist…
On 22 February 2024, the GCTF Co-Leads the United States and Jordan, together with UNOCT, held their first workshop of the new BSM Initiative to create an Addendum to the 2016 GCTF Good Practices in the Area of Border Security and Management. The Initiative aims to promote an inclusive and…
To commemorate the International Day for the Prevention of Violent Extremism as and when Conducive to Terrorism, the Global Sports Programme will host an online expert discussion, on 14 February 2024, to share good practices and expertise on the use of sport as an innovative tool for PVE. The event…
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The Tenth Coordination Committee meeting of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact, 24 January 2024, New York, UNHQ.














