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Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
UN Photo/Mark Garten (file)

Perpetrators of ‘reprehensible’ terrorist attacks in France, Kuwait and Tunisia must be brought to justice - UN

26 June 2015
Strongly condemning the terrorist attacks carried out separately today in Tunisia, Kuwait and France, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon underscored that, far from weakening the world’s resolve, the heinous incidents will only strengthen commitment to defeating all forms of terrorism.
Aircraft on runway.
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UN urges greater use of advance passenger information to stem flow of foreign terrorist fighters

11 June 2015
A United Nations counter-terrorism body is calling for expanding the use of advance passenger information (API) to stem the flow of foreign terrorist fighters, and recommends a number of measures to help overcome the challenges associated with using this important tool.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his wife Yoo Soon-taek in Bonn, Germany.
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

At G7 Summit, Ban outlines draft UN action plan to prevent violent extremism

8 June 2015
Concerned by the spread of violent extremist groups and the “malicious and hateful ideologies” that fuel them, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today outlined elements of an action plan he will present later this year to reinforce good governance, which he sees as terrorism’s true deterrent.
A woman and her children in a camp for internally displaced persons, in Yola, the capital of Adamawa, Nigeria, after members of the Boko Haram rebel group attacked their home.
UNICEF/Abdrew Esiebo

‘We can no longer stand by and watch,’ UN official says, urging global action against spread of extremism

3 June 2015
At a Headquarters forum on the role of media in combating terrorism, senior United Nations officials today expressed deep concerns over the impact of foreign terrorist fighters and their use of social media in spreading propaganda and radicalizing and recruit vulnerable young men and women to join their ranks.