https://press.un.org/en/2019/sc13691.doc.htm
Crime on the high seas is becoming increasingly sophisticated, ... The Office is working with Member States to counter the smuggling of migrants and terrorist material, and attacks on shipping in the Gulf of Aden. Its work also focuses on curbing cocaine trafficking in the Atlantic, heroin trafficking in the Indian Ocean, piracy and armed

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/08/1097432
Global response needed to counter rising security threats at sea. Despite an overall decrease in maritime traffic due to the COVID-19 pandemic, piracy and armed robbery of ships rose by nearly 20 per cent during the first half of last year, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Monday. Addressing a high-level debate on enhancing

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_77646.htm
NATO also takes part in counter-terrorism in the high seas. NATO's operation Sea Guardian is a flexible maritime security operation that is able to perform the full range of maritime security tasks, including countering terrorism at sea if required. Currently, Sea Guardian operates in the Mediterranean Sea.

https://www.diis.dk/en/research/are-security-operations-on-the-high-seas-as-much-about-fighting-crime-as-projecting-power
Are security operations on the high seas as much about fighting crime as projecting power? From counter-terrorism and counter-piracy to maritime security capacity-building, the Indian Ocean has been a testing-ground for international cooperation and burden-sharing at sea. A new chapter by DIIS researcher Jessica Larsen examines how the maritime

https://amti.csis.org/maritime-terrorism-as-an-evolving-threat-to-southeast-asias-security/
The common watchlist will help the three countries "skip" the national interest debate and focus exclusively on counter-terrorism operations. Second, the TCA must be embedded in the domestic legal and security practices of the three countries, to facilitate a whole-of-government or convergence approach in defense and law enforcement operations.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/02/1032011
International maritime crime is becoming "increasingly sophisticated" as criminal groups exploit jurisdiction and enforcement challenges on the high seas and pose "immediate danger to people's lives and safety", the UN anti-drugs and crime chief warned the Security Council on Tuesday. "Two-thirds of the world's surface is ocean.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2010/july/two-faces-high-seas-crime
These attacks have shifted to the high seas, even beyond the established naval patrol corridor in the Gulf of Aden. ... Operating within a maritime-terrorism context would improve both counter-terrorism and counter-piracy actions by preventing any breach of sovereignty, ensuring concerted efforts, and providing more clear-cut legal parameters.

https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Security/Pages/PiracyArmedRobberydefault.aspx
MSC.1/Circ.1601 Industry Counter Piracy Guidance (global and regional) Best Management Practices (BMP5) Global Counter Piracy Guidance by industry ; ReCAAP Guidance on Abduction of Crew in the Sulu-Celebes Seas and Waters off Eastern Sabah ; HRA revision May 2019 ; ReCAAP Regional Guide to Counter Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09546553.2013.855636
Jayant Abhyankar, "Piracy and Armed Robbery and Terrorism At Sea" (paper presented at the ORF Workshop on Maritime Counter Terrorism, Dehli, November 29, 2004); ... no. 1 (2011): 133-151; Murat Iyigun and Watcharapong Ratisukpimol, Learning Piracy on the High Seas (Boulder, CO: University of Colorado, 2011).

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13437-022-00296-w
This is due, in part, to the distinct lack of a counter terrorism framework for the industry. To address this gap, this paper develops a counter terrorism framework for cruise and passenger ships. ... Terrorism on the high seas: the Achille Lauro, piracy and the IMO convention on maritime safety. Am J Int Law 82(2):269-310. Article Google Scholar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO71FPYyFM8
In this lecture, Commodore Brian Santarpia of the Royal Canadian Navy discusses Canada's role in maritime counter-terrorism efforts around the world.

https://itlos.org/fileadmin/itlos/documents/statements_of_president/wolfrum/doherty_lectire_130406_eng.pdf
With the view to fill existing security gaps Russia has initiated a Convention for the Suppression of Nuclear Terrorism. After 11 September 2001 several new international instruments have been adopted to meet the new challenges. The most important of them is the 2005 Protocol to the Rome Convention. 2. Piracy.

https://www.dlpforum.org/2023/10/25/maritime-terrorism-challenges-counter-terrorism-efforts/
The discussion on counter-terrorism efforts is two-pronged as it deals with preventive measures, intending to discourage prospective terrorist attacks, and defensive measures, intending to protect/guard against terrorist attacks. The primary defensive mechanism exists in the form of self-defense, enshrined in Article 51 of the UN Charter as

https://www.iom.int/maritime-security-and-border-management
Crime on the high seas is becoming increasingly sophisticated, endangering human life, national security, the economic growth of entire regions and global safety. Maritime security requires appropriate border control measures along maritime border crossing points to help States better deal with transnational organized crime including piracy, terrorism, migrant smuggling, trafficking in persons

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/abs/terrorism-on-the-high-seas-the-achille-lauro-piracy-and-the-imo-convention-on-maritime-safety/5E5787E66BADEE7FA08808937443513F
8 Compare Gooding, Fighting Terrorism in the 1980's: The Interception of the Achille Lauro Hijackers, 12 Yale J. Int'l L. 158, 159 (1987) ("While it may be contended that the taking of the Achille Lauro is not included within [the 1958 Geneva Convention on the High Seas] definition [of piracy] because there was no second vessel involved or because the hijackers did not act for 'private

https://www.mindef.gov.sg/oms/safti/pointer/documents/pdf/V43N2a3.pdf
conducive for terrorist activities to occur (e.g., the legal immunity in relation to activities on high seas, poor or conflicting efforts by numerous countries in trying to establish a safe operating environment in coastal regions and port facilities). Furthermore, maritime terrorist attacks have the potential to cause

https://lieber.westpoint.edu/securing-maritime-domain-red-sea/
Counter-Piracy Operations. Acts of piracy violate international law and are considered a universal crime. As such, all States have an obligation to repress piracy on the high seas or in any other place outside the jurisdiction of any State (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), art. 100).

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13437-022-00296-w.pdf?pdf=button
Abstract. In the present context of global terrorism, managing protective security in cruise and passenger ships is a challenge for organisations. This is due, in part, to the distinct lack of a counter terrorism framework for the industry. To address this gap, this paper develops a counter terrorism framework for cruise and passenger ships.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Terror-on-the-High-Seas%3A-From-Piracy-to-Strategic-Alexander-Richardson/a5408b3be3ce99bb6513c9e29c71fa8d1d1f96a9
Combating 'Maritime Terrorism' Off the Coast of Somalia. A. Shortland Marc Vothknecht. Political Science, Law. 2010. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the international naval mission in the Gulf of Aden from 2008-2010, both in terms of its counter-piracy and its counter-terrorism objectives. We draw on….

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2022/05/05/new-ruling-threatens-coast-guards-high-seas-counter-drug-mission/
In this photo obtained from U.S. federal court records, Jeffri Dávila-Reyes, third from left, and two others hold their hands in the air as they are intercepted in the Caribbean Sea on Oct. 29, 2015.

https://brill.com/abstract/book/edcoll/9789004423039/BP000019.xml
Suppression of Terrorism on the High Seas: The 1988 IMO Convention on the Safety of Maritime Navigation In: Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, Volume 19 (1989) Author: Christopher C. Joyner ... Sanctions and Counter-Measures Short of the Use of Force against Terrorism. When Do Acts of Terrorism Violate Human Rights? Rendition of Terrorists

https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/ctc/content/caribbean
In the Caribbean, terrorism remains a low probability, high-impact threat. Governments of the subregion are aware of the evolving and decentralized threat posed by international terrorist groups

https://www.transportation.gov/testimony/piracy-high-seas-protecting-our-ships-crews-and-passengers
I am pleased to have the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the serious threat stemming from the ongoing piracy problem on the high seas. Throughout 2008 and continuing into 2009, the global piracy situation has grown substantially worse - particularly in an ever-expanding area off the coast of Somalia, where more than 20,000

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4746885-us-struggles-to-deter-houthi-threat-as-crisis-spirals/
After half a year of conflict, the U.S. has failed to deter the Houthi rebels from attacking merchant ships in the Red Sea as the Yemeni fighters continue to sink commercial boats and disrupt

https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/High-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/increased-monitoring-june-2024.html
High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action - June 2024 High-risk jurisdictions have significant strategic deficiencies in their regimes to counter money laundering, terrorist financing, and financing of proliferation. For all countries identified as high-risk, the FATF calls on all members and urges all jurisdictions to apply enhanced

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/06/28/merle-haggard-and-the-lost-free-life/
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court secretly ruled in 2006 that all Americans' telephone records were "relevant" to terrorism investigations and thus could be poached.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/politics/fact-checking-the-cnn-presidential-debate/index.html
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump faced off during CNN's presidential debate in Atlanta Thursday night.

https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/High-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/Call-for-action-june-2024.html
High-risk jurisdictions have significant strategic deficiencies in their regimes to counter money laundering, terrorist financing, and financing of proliferation. For all countries identified as high-risk, the FATF calls on all members and urges all jurisdictions to apply enhanced due diligence, and, in the most serious cases, countries are called upon to apply countermeasures to protect the

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/6/28/israel-war-on-gaza-live-people-flee-in-terror-as-tanks-drones-attack?update=3011260
The Pentagon says a temporary US aid pier has again been removed from the Gaza coast due to high seas and will be towed to an Israeli port. It is the third time the pier has been detached from the