Technical Assistance Tools and Publications

Menu of Services: Supporting Legal Responses and Criminal Justice Capacity to Prevent and Counter Terrorism  (English) 

This leaflet provides at a glance an overview of the work of the UNODC Terrorism Prevention Branch in preventing and countering terrorism.  

Menu of Services: Legislative and Capacity-Building Assistance to Prevent and Combat Terrorism (English)

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Publications

	Practical Guides, Handbooks and Manuals Counter-Terrorism Legal Training Curriculum Modules Model Laws Studies Compendia of Legal Instruments Conference Publications

Practical Guides, Handbooks and Manual

• Counter-Terrorism in the International Law Context

                          English |    

• Foreign Terrorist Fighters: Manual for Judicial Training Institutes, Middle East and North Africa

                          Arabic |  English  

• CTED: Guidelines to facilitate the use and admissibility as evidence in national criminal courts of information collected, handled, preserved and shared by the military to prosecute terrorist offences

                          English  | Portuguese | French  | Arabic

• Nigeria Training Module on Gender Dimensions of Criminal Justice Responses to Terrorism

                          English |

• UNODC Guidelines for the Central Asian PVE Network: Design and Management of Programmes to Prevent and Counter Violent Extremism

                         English |  Russian

• Handbook on gender dimensions of criminal justice  responses to terrorism

                        Arabic  |  Chinese  |    English   |   French  |  Spanish  |  Russian

• Good Practices in Supporting Victims of Terrorism within the Criminal Justice Framework

                       Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish

• Guidance Manual for Member States on Terrorist Financing Risk Assessments
• Investigation, Prosecution and Adjudication of Foreign Terrorist Fighter Cases for South and South-East Asia
• Handbook on Children Recruited and Exploited by Terrorist and Violent Extremist Groups: The Role of the Justice System

                    Arabic |  English  

• Foreign Terrorist Fighters: Manual for Judicial Training Institutes, South Eastern-Europe

                      English   |  Albanian  |    Bosnian |    Macedonian

• The Criminal Justice Response to Support Victims of Acts of Terrorism

Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish ( Dari | Pashto)

• The Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes

Arabic |  French | Russian | Spanish

• Practical Guide to Draft Cooperation Requests to Member States of the Multi-Agency Task Force of the Middle East and North Africa Region (Arabic only)

• Lutte contre le terrorisme dans la région du Sahel: cadre juridique, techniques d'enquête et coopération policière (French only)
• Digest of Terrorist Cases
  
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  • Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish

• Frequently Asked Questions on International law Aspects of Countering Terrorism
  
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  • Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish

• Guide for Legislative Incorporation of the Provisions of the Universal Anti-Terrorism Instruments
• • Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish

• Handbook on Criminal Justice Responses to Terrorism
  
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  • Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish

• International Instruments related to the Prevention and Suppression of International Terrorism (English only)

• Legislative Guide to the Universal Legal Regime Against Terrorism
• • Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish

• Manual on International Cooperation in Criminal Matters related to Terrorism
  
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  • Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish

• Preventing terrorist acts: a criminal justice strategy integrating rule of law standards in implementation of United Nations anti-terrorism instruments
• • Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish

• Practical Guide to extradition and mutual legal assistance for member states of the Indian Ocean Commission (Comoros, Réunion, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles) (Full-text pdf in French)

• Practical Guide on carrying out effective extradition and mutual legal assistance requests in criminal matters for countries of the Sahel Regional Judicial Platform (Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger) (Full-text pdf in French)

• Case management tool to conduct investigations of the financing of terrorism offences in Colombia (Plan de investigación en financiación del terrorismo) (Spanish only)

• Guide for Colombia on the Legal Regime against Terrorism and Its Financing (Guía del régimen jurídico contra el terrorismo y la financiación del terrorismo para Colombia) (Spanish only)

Counter-Terrorism Legal Training Curriculum Modules

Counter-Terrorism Legal Training Curriculum Module 4: Human Rights and Criminal Justice Responses to Terrorism Arabic |  French	Counter-Terrorism Legal Training Curriculum Module 5: Transport-related (civil aviation and maritime) Terrorism Offences French

Counter-Terrorism Legal Training Curriculum Module 6: The International Legal Framework against Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism Arabic | Chinese | English | French | Russian | Spanish

Country-Specific Training Modules

Kenya Training Manual on Human Rights and Criminal Justice Responses to Terrorism (English only)

Model Laws

Model laws and treaties, to assist States in the elaboration of treaties and domestic laws on international cooperation, combating terrorism, money-laundering and the financing of terrorism, are available upon request from the Terrorism Prevention Branch.

Studies

• A Review of the Legal Regime against Terrorism in West and Central Africa (English only)
• Study of Counter-terrorism legislation in the Gulf Countries and Yemen (Arabic only)
• International Workshop on Counter-Terrorism Focal Points: Better Linking National and Global Counter-Terrorism Efforts
• • Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish

Compendia of Legal Instruments

• United Nations Compendium of recommended practices for the responsible use and sharing of biometrics in counter-terrorism
• • Russian
    

• Compendium of Bilateral, Regional and International Agreements on Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters for Kenya (English only)
• International Instruments Related to the Prevention and Suppression of International Terrorism (English only)
• Compendium of Technical Tools Consolidating Bilateral, Regional and International Instruments on Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance for ECOWAS Member States
• • Volume 1 (English, French and Spanish)
  • Volume 2 (English, French and Spanish)

• Compendium of Bilateral, Regional and International Agreements on Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters for Indian Ocean Commission countries (Comoros, Réunion, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles) (French only)
  
  • Volume 1
  • Volume 2

• Compendium of Regional and International Agreements on Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters for Mauritius and Seychelles (English only)

• Compendium of Bilateral, Regional and International Agreements on Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters for Niger (French only)
• • Volume 1
  • Volume 2
• FATF Recommendations "International Standards on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism and Proliferation" (translated by the UNODC Terrorism Prevention Branch into Dari and Pashto)
  
  • Dari
  • Pashto

• Compendium of Bilateral and Regional Instruments for South Asia: International Cooperation in Criminal Matters (English only)
  • Volume 1
  • Volume 2

Conference Publications

• International Workshop of National Counter-Terrorism Focal Points: Better linking national and global counter-terrorism efforts
• • Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish

• Symposium on Advancing the Implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, Vienna 2007
• • Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish

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