United Nations organises 2020 Virtual Counter-Terrorism Week from 6-10 July 2020
- The United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism organised its Virtual Counter-Terrorism Week 2020 from 6-10 July 2020.
- The theme of 2020 Counter-Terrorism Week was “Strategic and Practical Challenges of Countering Terrorism in a Global Pandemic Environment”.
- This was the second edition of the UN Counter-Terrorism Week while the first time that the event was held virtually due to covid-19 pandemic.
- Originally the second Counter-Terrorism Week was to take place from 29 June to 3 July 2020 at the UN Headquarters, New York, but due to the COVID-19 crisis the entire 2020 Counter-Terrorism Week was postponed.