Resources

For more than twenty years, the United Nations Security Council, regional organizations and Member States have adopted measures to prevent resources from being made available to groups considered ‘terrorist’, or from contributing to the pursuit of terrorist purposes.

The objective of this common narrative is to facilitate consistent messaging among IASC members during upcoming climate events in 2021. To this end, the common narrative has served as basis for the video submitted by 12 IASC organizations to the Climate Adaptation Summit as a prerecorded side event, which was shared widely via social media by the humanitarian and wider climate community in early 2021.

Highlights: one year on from the release of the IASC MHPSS RG children’s storybook on COVID-19 in April 2020. A report documenting the impact and country reach of an IASC resource on COVID-19. 

At a glance This IASC paper offers an overview and evaluation of specific actions that the UN Security Council, States, and other stakeholders have taken or may consider in the future, to mitigate the impact of sanctions and counterterrorism measures on humanitarian operations.