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Some countries and private companies are using ¡°counter-terrorism and security rhetoric¡± to justify a major increase in the deployment and use of cutting-edge surveillance technology, with no regulation, and at an ¡°enormous¡­

UN Secretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres has warned that the fight against terrorism will never succeed if we perpetuate the ¡°denial and destruction¡± of human rights.

The growth of terrorism is a major threat to international peace and security, currently felt most keenly in Africa, the deputy UN chief told the Security Council on Thursday.

A two-day meeting of the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee in India has ended with the adoption of a document committing Member States to prevent and combat digital forms of terror, notably using drones, social¡­

¡°It is my appeal to all the representatives of States, to ensure there is no safe haven provided to any kind of terrorism whatsoever¡±: the words of Nidhi Chaphekar, a survivor of the 2016 Brussels terrorist attacks, opening a¡­

The threat of terrorism and organised crime is becoming increasingly entrenched across Africa, the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime told the Security Council on Thursday, warning that illegal trafficking is depriving¡­

Advancing the rights and needs of people whose lives have been upended by terrorism is the goal of a two-day meeting that opened at United Nations Headquarters in New York on Thursday.

In a joint briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday, UN counterterrorism officials confirmed that the threat posed by Da¡¯esh terrorist fighters and their affiliates remains ¡°global and evolving¡±.

While the number of deaths from terrorism has declined, the overall threat is far from over, particularly in Africa, UN Secretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres said in New York on Wednesday.

Responses to terrorism must be anchored in the rule of law, human rights, and gender equality to ensure their effectiveness, Secretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres told a UN-backed counter-terrorism meeting that opened in M¨¢laga¡­

The global fight against the shadowy, ever-morphing threat posed by the ISIL terrorist group - known officially as Da¡¯esh - and its affiliates, remains a ¡°long-term game¡± for which there are ¡°no quick fixes,¡± the UN counter¡­

Two decades after the 11 September terrorist attacks in New York, terror networks Al-Qaida and Islamic State ¨C also known as Da¡¯esh ¨C continue to pose a grave threat to peace and security, adapting to new technologies and¡­