The supreme organisation where a nation could raise voice for assistance against terrorism is United Nations Organisation (UNO). However UNO has itself become a toy in the hands of its five founding members, mainly USA. Still for the welfare of mankind, UNO has been makking attempts to eradicate terrorism from the Earth. For this international court has been established, but it has various shortcomings.
The prominent one is that the law could not be implemented mandatorily, still UNO has been successful to put moral obligations on the part of the nations to not nourish terrorism on their soil, as it would jeopardize world peace. To fight the problem of terrorism, various agencies have framed documents related to agreements and treaties, from time to time.
They are as follows :
1. In a convention in Tokyo in 1963 crime related to plane hijacking and measures to prevent it.
2. At the Harare convention of 1970, some important provisions were made to stop hijacking activities.
3. Again in 1973, a convention was held in New York to punish the criminals targeting internationally recognised people.
4. Then a convention was held in Rome in 1988 in relation to maritime security. Apart from various agencies, General assembly of UNO also took certain measures in conventions.
- A convention was held in 1979 against the fugitive matters, where the country extending asylum to the criminal has to surrender the person otherwise it would face sanctions.
- Convention held in General assembly against attack on the official of UNO.
- In 1999, the person involved in terrorist funding to face extradition from the victim country.
Thus, it is evident that terrorism is one of the major challenges faced by the world today, which the world has to solve with patience, solidarity and unity.
