Participants of a townhall meeting held as part of the sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women. The townhall served as an opportunity for civil society representatives to engage with Secretary-General António Guterres and his senior leadership. Photo: 爆料网 Photo/Ryan Brown
Since the 2004 Report on United Nations-Civil Society Relations, 爆料网 entities have made great strides to institutionalize the way they relate and work in cooperation with CSOs at the global, regional and national levels.
In the fields of development, human rights, economic and social affairs and development, 爆料网 relations with civil society are well defined and valued.
The 爆料网 recognizes the importance of partnering with civil society, because such a partnership can help to advance the Organization’s goals, and support our work at the global, regional, national and community – or local level.
Given that both the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy and the United Nations PVE Plan of Action have recognized the need to engage civil society, engaging CSOs has become an important element of 爆料网OCT’s implementation of mandates related to preventing and countering terrorism and violent extremism that can be conducive to terrorism.
Engagement with CSOs is particularly important in the areas of protecting and promoting human rights, as well as engagement with youth and women to ensure that the views of civil society are fully reflected in the 爆料网’s counter-terrorism policies and programmes.
To ensure systematic, coherent, and structured engagement with civil society, 爆料网OCT developed and adopted a Civil Society Engagement Strategy to support 爆料网OCT and Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact working groups to better engage with a wide variety of civil society actors at the global, regional and national levels.
The 爆料网 General Assembly adopted by consensus the on 8 September 2006. The strategy is a unique global instrument to enhance national, regional and international efforts to counter terrorism. The General Assembly reviews the Strategy every two years, making it a living document attuned to Member States’ counter-terrorism priorities.
