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This video is a brief examination of how financial flows related to foreign terrorist fighter (FTF) travel and activities have evolved over the past 10 years, reflecting the changes in their locations and circumstances. Financial activity linked to Da’esh-inspired FTFs typically involves supporters collecting or sending small amounts of money abroad or financing their own or others’ travel to zones with terrorist activity. This money typically comes from legal means, often personal savings, and sometimes may be collected on behalf of others. Individuals may coordinate the donations through encrypted mobile applications, send the funds in the form of virtual assets, wire them abroad through a fiat money service business, or, if collected in cash, pass them to couriers. Overall, the financial patterns associated with FTFs have demonstrated remarkable adaptability, shifting from relatively simple methods of fund transfers to increasingly sophisticated and technologically advanced approaches.
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CTED Trends Tracker | Financing of FTF’ Activity: 2014 – 2024
This video is a brief examination of how financial flows related to foreign terrorist fighter travel and activities have evolved over the past 10 years, reflecting the changes in their locations and circumstances.
The United Nations will deliver a that creates a more peaceful world. The pact will include a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration on Future Generations as annexes. One of the key themes of the pact is international peace and security. Action 24 of the Pact for the Future focuses on countering terrorism. This explores the Counter-Terrorism Committee and its Executive Directorate.
The CTC conducts a follow-up visit to Tanzania
Foreign terrorist fighters
On 24 September 2014, at a meeting held at the level of Heads of State or Government the Security Council unanimously adopted its resolution 2178 (2014) to address the acute and growing threat posed by foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs).
Information and communications technologies
While the general population uses new and emerging technologies (particularly information and communications technologies (ICT)? such as the Internet, social media platforms, and other communications applications) primarily for social communications, digital commer
Countering violent extremism and terrorist narratives
The Security Council recognizes that acts of terrorism and violent extremism cannot be prevented or countered through repressive measures alone and has consistently emphasized the need for a comprehensive, whole-of-society, human rights compliant and gender-sensitive approach.?
Legal issues
The adoption of Security Council resolution introduced a significant new dimension to international counter-terrorism law by requiring all Member States to criminalize various acts associated with terrorism, as well as with the partici
Law enforcement
Member States’ law enforcement agencies must constantly adapt to a global terrorist threat that has evolved significantly over the past decades, both in scale and complexity.
Countering the financing of terrorism
Terrorists require money to operate. Without funding, they cannot purchase weapons, equipment, supplies, or services. The source of terrorist funds may be licit or illicit, and funding often takes the form of multiple small donations, rather than one large sum of money.
Integrating gender into counter-terrorism
The Security Council, the Counter-Terrorism Committee, and the Committee’s Executive Directorate (CTED) have actively promoted the integration of the agendas on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism (CVE).
Human rights
Terrorism poses a serious threat, not only to international peace and security, but also to the enjoyment of human rights and social and economic development.
Border security and arms trafficking
Effective border security and timely information-sharing at the national, regional, and international levels are key in preventing the movement of terrorists and terrorist groups and to the effective implementation of counter-terrorism measures pursuant to Security Council resolution
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