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CTC

Counter-Terrorism Committee

President: Renata Monroy Montalvo

Chair: Daniela Zistecatl Díaz, Sofia Paola Jiménez de la Cruz, Daniela Ramírez del Prado Rodríguez, Nuri Valentina Galindo Gutiérrez, Sara Carolina Leyva Cardona.

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Topic A) Strategies to halt the recruitment and radicalization of members for extremist groups with a focus on countering the influence of the ISIS group in the Middle East

 

Topic B) Measures to strive against the organizational structure of extremist attacks led by the Lashkar-e-Taiba entity, with emphasis on South Asia

Background and faculties

The Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), a subsidiary body of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), was adopted on September 28, 2001; all 15 Security Council members were requested to implement initiatives in order to strengthen their legal and institutional abilities against terrorism pursuits. This entity, in response to the September 11 extremist attack in the United States of America, seeks as its main objective to criminalize the financing of terrorism, suppress the provision of refuge to extremists and cooperate with other governments through the process of investigation, detection, arrest and extradition of those involved in such crimes. In the same way, the UNSC established the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) to oversee the procedure of the resolutions implementation.

With the objective of counteracting terrorists acts through international support, the Counter-Terrorism Committee has the capacity to: 

  • Coordinate border security and timely information-sharing through the national, regional, and international levels. 

  • Exchange information through a database system that includes advanced passenger data, names and biometric features, along with a list of known and suspected extremists. 

  • Countering the financing of terrorism to maintain the security of the Member States as well as the economic development and financial market stability. 

  • Supports legislative development, training and technical assistance of policies to suit the legal frameworks.

  • Deny safe haven to suspects as well as freezing funds to people involved in terrorist acts or under investigation. 

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