terror

New UN-sponsored maritime ID enters into force to fight terrorism

10 February 2005
In an effort to pre-empt terrorism on the high seas and in the world’s ports, a new and more rigorous United Nations-sponsored biometric identity verification system that could potentially affect 1.2 million maritime workers handling 90 per cent of global trade has entered into force.

Annan to soon offer ideas for UN anti-terrorism strategy

7 February 2005
Responding to a recommendation by his High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change that the United Nations should work out a comprehensive anti-terrorism strategy, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told a counter-terrorism meeting that he would soon put forward some ideas on the matter.

UN rights experts raise ‘serious concerns’ over detainees at US naval base

4 February 2005
United Nations human rights experts today expressed “serious concerns” over detainees held in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, by the United States on grounds of terrorism, including “the need to objectively assess” allegations of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in relation to methods of interrogation.