terror

Martin Scheinin, Special Rapporteur

Counter-terrorism should not undermine rights to assembly or association: UN expert

25 October 2006
Countries need to pay “increased attention” to ensuring that critical basic freedoms – of peaceful assembly and of association – are not unduly compromised in the fight against terrorism and that any restrictive measures be “necessary, proportionate and subject to judicial safeguards,” an independent United Nations expert warned today.

Turkey makes progress on detention procedures, but not for terror suspects – UN experts

23 October 2006
Despite strengthened safeguards against arbitrary detention in Turkey’s criminal justice system stemming from new laws enacted last year, the situation of terrorist suspects who have been detained for up to 13 years without being found guilty is “most disturbing,” according to United Nations experts.
IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei

UN nuclear watchdog says it needs greater resources to tackle new challenges, terrorism

19 October 2006
With a major increase in nuclear power generation around the world and a “temptation” for countries to develop nuclear weapons, the United Nations atomic watchdog has said it needs greater technological, regulatory and financial resources to tackle the new challenges, including preventing such weapons falling into terrorist hands.