Terrorismo y Contraterrorismo: octubre 2008

martes, 28 de octubre de 2008

LEGISLATIVE GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSAL LEGAL REGIME AGAINST TERRORISM

This updated version of the Legislative Guide has been prepared to facilitate the task of national authorities in adopting and implementing the universal legal regime against terrorism. It replaces a publication issued in 2003, the Legislative Guide to the Universal Anti-Terrorism Conventions and Protocols. Both the 2003 and 2008 versions of the Guide were prepared for the information of government officials and others concerned with the international legal aspects of the prevention and suppression of terrorism. The 2003 Guide grouped the then existing 12 conventions and protocols according to subject matter, that is as relating to: (a) civil aviation; (b) status of the victim; (c) dangerous materials; (d) vessels and fixed platforms; and
(e) the financing of terrorism. The 2008 Guide groups the offences according to the entities of the United Nations system responsible for their development in order to place recent developed instruments in context and to indicate sources of technical expertise.

http://www.unodc.org/documents/terrorism/LegislativeGuide2008.pdf

GUIDE FOR THE LEGISLATIVE INCORPORATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UNIVERSAL ANTI-TERRORISM INSTRUMENTS

The main purpose of the present Legislative Guide is to facilitate the task of the competent authorities of States in ratifying, incorporating in law and implementing the universal anti-terrorism instruments. The Guide has been drafted principally for the benefit of political decision makers and legislators of countries that are preparing themselves for this process of implementation. It is also designed to assist the establishment of bilateral or multilateral treaties or agreements concerning international cooperation in criminal matters related to countering terrorism. It therefore presents the basic requirements set forth by the United Nations conventions, protocols and resolutions and explores the issues that all Member States
will have to address. It sets out, in addition, a wide array of options and examples for consideration by national legislators when incorporating the counter-terrorism instruments.

http://www.unodc.org/pdf/terrorism/TATs/en/2LIGen.pdf

Previniendo actos terroristas

PREVENTING TERRORIST ACTS: A CRIMINAL JUSTICE STRATEGY INTEGRATING RULE OF LAW STANDARDS IN IMPLEMENTATION OF UNITED NATIONS ANTI-TERRORISM INSTRUMENTS

Technical Assistance Working Paper
Terrorism Prevention Branch

http://www.unodc.org/pdf/terrorism/TATs/en/3IRoLen.pdf

Proporcionando asistencia contraterrorista

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME

Terrorism Prevention Branch
Viena, March 2008

http://www.unodc.org/documents/terrorism/TPBBrochure2008.pdf

jueves, 23 de octubre de 2008

EUA: Terrorism 2002-2005

Since the mid-1980s, the FBI has published Terrorism in the United States, an unclassified annual report summarizing terrorist activities in this country. While this publication provided an overview of the terrorist threat in the United States and its territories, its limited scope proved inadequate for conveying either the breadth or width of the terrorist threat facing U.S. interests or the scale of the FBI’s response to terrorism worldwide. To better reflect the nature of the threat and the international scope of our response, the FBI expanded the focus of its annual terrorism report in the 2000/2001 edition to include discussion of FBI investigations overseas and renamed the series Terrorism.

http://www.fbi.gov/publications/terror/terrorism2002_2005.pdf

EUA: The terrorist threat to the US homeland (NIE)

National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) are the Intelligence Community’s (IC) most authoritative written judgments on national security issues and designed to help US civilian and military leaders develop policies to protect US national security interests. NIEs usually provide information on the current state of play but are primarily “estimative”—that is, they make judgments about the likely course of future events and identify the implications for US policy.

http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/20070717_release.pdf

martes, 21 de octubre de 2008

Journalism, civil liberties and the war on terrorism

A report on the impact of the war on terrorism on civil liberties should set alarm bells ringing around the world of journalism, says the International Federation of Journalists today.The IFJ, the world’s largest journalists’ group has chosen World Press Freedom Day 2005 to launch its 60-page assessment of how civil liberties and free expression are being sacrificed by democratic states in the name of security. “The response by governments to the threat of terrorism is out of all proportion,” says the report. “The war on terrorism amounts to a devastating challenge to the global culture of human rights and civil liberties established almost 60 years ago.”The report, produced jointly by the IFJ and the civil liberties group Statewatch, includes an analysis of current policy developments as well as a survey of some 20 selected countries, concludes that around half of the minimum standards set out in the Universal Declaration of on Human Rights are being undermined by the war on terrorism.

http://www.ifj.org/assets/docs/217/000/e70ecd9-6e77800.pdf