Keeping in mind the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Working Group Strategic
Communications Initiative which “provides recommendations which are intended to
address violent extremism that is conducive to terrorism in all its forms and
manifestations”,
Further emphasizing the need for an urgent and swift implementation of policies and
reforms that so as to prevent the youth from being exposed/minimizing the effect of
recruitment propaganda from extremist terrorist organization in the internet as a medium
of communication;
Deeply Alarmed by the fact that according to Our World in Data, there have been 13,488
terrorism-related incidents in 2016 as opposed to 1,813 in the year 2000,
1. Strongly Recommends that all Member States adopt and enforce the national
legislation necessary in order to guarantee the safeguarding of the youth against
the potential eventuality of recruitment into extremist terrorist organizations,
specifically laws that will:
a. Prohibit extremist terroristic propaganda in its entirety,
b. Ensure the presence of a state-approved system of primary and secondary
education available for the all of the citizens aged 7-18;
4. Invites the Member States to uphold the rights to Freedom, Speech and
Expression in the face of an increasingly digitally monitored society and ensure the
protection of the aforementioned rights established in the UDHR through national
legislation;