UNICRI

UNICRI assists the international community in formulating and implementing improved policies in the field of crime prevention and justice.

[UNICRI @UNICRI]

🌍 From the crime scene to the courtroom: strengthening criminal justice responses to CBRN threats.

50 criminal justice practitioners from 🇲🇩 Moldova and 🇺🇦 Ukraine completed a five-day 🇺🇳 UNICRI training course under the THEMIS project.
From theory to practice:
🔹 50 training sessions and hands-on exercises
🔹 10+ real-world case studies
🔹 Investigation, prosecution and adjudication of CBRN crimes

⚖️From international expertise to national ownership: professionals trained through earlier initiatives are now training their peers, with selected modules integrated into national curricula.
Reaching beyond capital cities, the initiative helps build specialized capacities across both countries.

⏭️ Next: national CBRN mock trials in 2027.

🙏 Donors: 🇨🇦 Global Affairs Canada @GAC_Corporate | 🇳🇴 Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority @dsa_stralevern
🙏 National partners: Prosecutor General's Office of Moldova | Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine @GP_Ukraine | National Institute of Justice of Moldova | Training Centre of Prosecutors of Ukraine

Building on earlier 🇪🇺 EU-funded efforts under #EUCBRNCoE.
From international expertise to national ownership: sustaining capacities to prevent and respond to CBRN threats.

➡️ https://t.co/ujqx59MbM0

[Climate & Sustainable Development Network @CSDevNet1]

DAY 2 | #HEATSAFE COMMUNITY PROJECT
Young Heatsafe Champions from Wudil and Gaya LGAs, Kano, practised emergency response, role played community alerts, mapped vulnerable groups, and simulated referrals to health centres

Ready to act @sanofi
#HeatSafeCommunityProject

[GCERF @theGCERF]

👉 Register Now for the High-Level Dialogue Forum | 19 November

🎮 What happens when online spaces become more than places to connect, play and interact?

For many young people, gaming platforms and online communities are an integral part of everyday life. But these evolving digital environments can also create new spaces for harmful narratives, radicalisation, and the normalisation of violence.

As forms of violent extremism become increasingly complex, recognising emerging threats and understanding how they develop is more important than ever.

💡Bringing together government representatives, international organisations, researchers, and civil society practitioners, the Forum will create space to exchange perspectives, explore emerging challenges, and share practical approaches to early warning and prevention, focusing on Indonesia and the Philippines.

📅 19 November 2026 | Hybrid | In-Person in Indonesia or Online via Zoom
🕘 14:00–18:00 Jakarta Time (UTC+7)
🔗 Register now: https://t.co/rN7jvfrI7O

The Forum will also be livestreamed on the Facebook and YouTube channels of GCERF and ASEAN-IPR.

💐 With sincere thanks to our co-hosts, @BNPTRI @ASEAN_IPR, Christchurch Call Foundation, @SPF_PR, and @UNICRI

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🌐 Addressing the challenges of a changing world while helping shape its future.

🧭 Clear direction and strong leadership are essential to responding to global priorities and anticipating emerging challenges.

UNICRI’s Board of Trustees, the Institute’s governing body, helps shape its strategic direction and ensure its work remains relevant, responsive and effective.

🙏 Following our recent meeting, our heartfelt thanks to all Board members for their strategic vision and commitment to UNICRI’s mission.

Elected members: 🇺🇾 Bettina Tucci Bartsiotas (President) | 🇸🇨 Jonathan Lucas (Vice-President) | 🇯🇴 Omar Rifai (Rapporteur) | 🇩🇰 Pernille Dahler Kardel | 🇸🇬 Kwok Fook Seng | 🇵🇪 Carolina Lizárraga Houghton | 🇨🇦 Deborah Lyons
Ex-officio members: 🇮🇹 Susanna Schlein | 🇺🇳 Monica Juma | 🇺🇳 Revai Makanje Aalbaek | 🇺🇳 Leif Villadsen

Guided by its Board of Trustees, UNICRI continues to advance crime prevention, justice and security in service of the international community, contributing to peace and the protection of human rights worldwide.

[United Nations @UN]

Heavy rains are flooding displacement sites across Gaza.

Tents have collapsed, children are wading through contaminated water & families are losing what little they have.

@UNmigration is working to help, but needs far exceed available resources. https://t.co/y2zEW1JeRR

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

"No country in the Middle East can achieve lasting security at the expense of another." - @antonioguterres, UN Secretary-General

[UNICRI @UNICRI]

Strengthening responses to extortion originating from prisons.

In Mexico City, UNICRI brought together prison, security and investigative authorities to explore ways to prevent and combat extortion originating from prisons.

Through exchanges of experience and a tabletop exercise, participants examined shared challenges and practical responses, with a focus on victim protection and human rights.

Experts from Mexican academia and NGOs contributed alongside specialists from 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇺🇸 the United States and 🇵🇪 Peru.

We thank our Mexican partners - the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (@SSPCMexico), its Decentralized Administrative Body for Prevention and Social Reintegration (@PyRS_Mexico) and Mexico City’s Secretariat of Citizen Security (#SSC) - for their valuable collaboration and continued efforts to prevent and combat extortion.

We also express our appreciation to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) for its support in making this initiative possible.

[United Nations @UN]

Peace & the health of our planet are deeply connected.

40% of internal conflicts in the past 60 years have been linked to natural resource exploitation.

Friday is the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War & Armed Conflict.

— via @UNEP

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🌐 From regional coordination to concrete action: strengthening CBRN security across the African Atlantic Façade region.

🌍 In Rabat, a series of initiatives held under the 🇪🇺EU-funded CBRN Risk Mitigation Centres of Excellence (EU CBRN CoE) Initiative brought together regional and national stakeholders through Projects 107 and 108 alongside the African Atlantic Façade CBRN National Focal Points Regional Strategic Coordination Meeting.

At the heart of these efforts is the African Atlantic Façade CBRN Regional Secretariat - a driving force for regional cooperation, strategic coordination and collective action.

Yet, regional progress is ultimately driven by people: the National CBRN Focal Points, whose commitment, expertise and sustained efforts turn shared priorities into concrete, collective action.

Partner countries: 🇧🇯 🇨🇲 🇨🇮 🇬🇦 🇱🇷 🇲🇷 🇲🇦 🇸🇳 🇸🇱 🇹🇬
🧭 Stronger coordination. Greater ownership. A more resilient region.

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death"

Martin Luther King Jr.’s message reminds us that building peace through social justice is our moral responsibility. #OurCommonFuture