Security Council - Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) -  prosecutors /securitycouncil/ctc/tags/%C2%A0prosecutors en CTED hosts 12th Regional counter-terrorism workshop for judges, prosecutors, and police in South Asia /securitycouncil/ctc/news/cted-hosts-12th-regional-counter-terrorism-workshop-judges-prosecutors-and-police-south-asia <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">The 12<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;<i>Regional workshop for judges, prosecutors, and police in South Asia on effectively countering terrorism</i>&nbsp;took place in Colombo from 5 to 7 June 2017. Over the past eight years, these regional workshops have involved over 300 senior judges, prosecutors, and police officials representing all eight member States of the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). Organized by the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), in cooperation with the Government of Sri Lanka and the Global Center on Cooperative Security, the workshop allows participants to identify a number of counter-terrorism-related gaps and potential solutions.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">CTED and its partners continue to take their findings into account in facilitating the delivery of technical assistance aimed at strengthening Member States’ capacities in these areas.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Some of the participants in the workshop.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Representatives of numerous regional and international organizations have been engaged in the project, which provides law enforcement officials from across the region the opportunity to interact and share experiences with their counterparts on sensitive counter-terrorism-related issues.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">The project has also fostered the creation of a regional online network of expert practitioners who are able to share information and good practices in a number of sensitive areas, including domestic and international cooperation in criminal matters, interview and interrogation, use of sensitive evidence, advanced investigative techniques, and gender.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Project donors include Australia, Canada, Denmark, India, Sweden, and the United States of America.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">&nbsp;</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-front-page-article field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Front Page Article:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></div> Thu, 08 Jun 2017 09:18:00 +0000 BMUSONI 20576 at /securitycouncil/ctc CTED facilitates national workshop on anti-money laundering and terrorist financing in Nepal /securitycouncil/ctc/news/cted-facilitates-national-workshop-anti-money-laundering-and-terrorist-financing-nepal <div class="field field-name-field-featured-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div id="file-22724" class="file file-image file-image-jpeg"> <h2 class="element-invisible"><a href="/securitycouncil/ctc/file/22724">image2_edited.jpg</a></h2> <div class="content"> <img class="panopoly-image-original img-responsive" src="/securitycouncil/ctc/sites/www.un.org.securitycouncil.ctc/files/styles/panopoly_image_original/public/news_articles/image2_edited.jpg?itok=aI1srMSm" alt="" /> </div> </div> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">On 6-8 February 2017, the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) facilitated a national workshop for judges, prosecutors, and investigators in Nepal. Held in Kathmandu, the workshop focused on the National Judicial Academy’s new manual on anti-money laundering and terrorist financing (AML-TF). The manual outlines recent amendments to Nepal’s AML-TF legislation, and is the culmination of a multi-year project amongst the National Judicial Academy, CTED, and the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.globalcenter.org/" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline">Global Center on Cooperative Security.</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">The Executive Director of the National Judicial Academy with the Head judge of the Special Anti-Money Laundering Court in Nepal with the new manual.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">The manual was developed in coordination with CTED and the Global Center, with financial support of the U.S. Department of State.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">&nbsp;</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-front-page-article field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Front Page Article:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></div> Fri, 10 Feb 2017 20:20:00 +0000 BMUSONI 20828 at /securitycouncil/ctc 9th Regional Workshop for Judges, Prosecutors, and Police Officers on Effectively Countering Terrorism in South Asia concludes /securitycouncil/ctc/news/9th-regional-workshop-judges-prosecutors-and-police-officers-effectively-countering-terrorism <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">On 4 November 2014, the 9th Regional Workshop for Judges, Prosecutors, and Police Officers on Effectively Countering Terrorism in South Asia concluded after three full days. Jointly hosted by the Government of the Republic of the Maldives and the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), the workshop was organized by the Global Center on Cooperative Security, with financial support from the Governments of Denmark and the United States of America.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">In regions connected by history, kinships, and shared borders, what happens in one State will impact its neighbours. Terrorism, therefore, affects not just individual States but entire regions. South Asia is one of the regions that have greatly suffered the consequences of terrorism. As part of an effort to promote greater regional cooperation to combat terrorism and other forms of serious crime, CTED has helped to organize a series of workshops that have been held throughout the region for the past six years.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">In the Maldives, police, prosecutors, and judges from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka attended the three-day workshop, the purpose of which was to explore specific issues identified by the participants that present the greatest opportunity to enhance efforts to combat terrorism.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Representing the Government of the Maldives at the opening session was Secretary of Defence Colonel (retired) Mohamed Nazim.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Head of the CTED Delegation was Chief of Section Elizabeth Joyce, who underlined that capacity-building initiatives such as this workshop “provide an important platform for regional counterparts to share their experiences, lessons learned and good practices, to discuss key challenges, and most importantly – to develop habits of cooperation.”</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Over the three days, participants were engaged in numerous interactive discussions, facilitated by resource persons from Australia, Nepal, the UK, and the United States of America, and which included a case study in which the judges, prosecutors and police officers, respectively, had to present and explain their positions at the end of the workshop.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">&nbsp;</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-front-page-article field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Front Page Article:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></div> Wed, 05 Nov 2014 19:11:00 +0000 BMUSONI 22870 at /securitycouncil/ctc