A/HRC/30/64 For human rights activists, security is a taboo. Security means you are anti-human rights. But that gives space to those who are not very keen on human rights to take care of this topic. I think that people from a human rights background should be more involved in security issues, and stop thinking that security is a taboo. If we want to defend people’s rights, the first thing we need to defend is their right to live and not to die. That’s the first step.3 23. The international community now recognized the important nexus between security and development and their interdependence. The new comprehensive, integrated and universal sustainable development goals should provide an important framework for a United Nations common effort in this area. 4 On the one hand, the new agenda recognizes the need to build peaceful, just and inclusive societies; on the other hand, it is expected that at the summit to be held in September 2015, when the post-2015 development agenda is expected to be adopted, Member States will recognize the need to “strengthen national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime”.5 24. UNODC supported Member States in implementing the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, in particular its criminal justice aspects. The Terrorism Prevention Branch supported Member States’ efforts to ensure effective and efficient criminal justice responses to prevent and counter terrorism, including by developing multiyear cooperation plans with a number of countries. 25. The right to be protected was emphasized as a key aspect of the right to security of person. In recent years, traditional security-oriented approaches had been increasingly recognized as insufficient to effectively address the threat of terrorism, particularly in the medium and long term. UNODC believed that a long-term approach to countering terrorism must encompass prevention, with more focus on the plans and activities of terrorist groups. Such a preventative approach required that lawful investigative and evidentiary mechanisms be established by Member States to facilitate prosecutorial intervention before tragedies occur, while respecting procedural safeguards. 26. Criminalization was an important tool for preventing violent extremism, however, it carried significant risks of arbitrary limitations on the right to the freedoms of expression, religion and association. Therefore, UNODC was enhancing its efforts to assist Member States in developing legislation and criminal justice capacities to punish conduct that spread ideas supportive of violent extremism, while complying with fundamental freedoms. For example, terrorists utilized the Internet to recruit terrorists and incite the commission of acts of terror. The Internet also allowed terrorists to spread their message to a worldwide audience at a low cost. UNODC has developed specialized training programmes that address the facilitation of violent extremism over the Internet. 27. The international community needs to do more in the area of preventing radicalization to violence in prison settings. UNODC assisted Member States in building and reforming their prison systems and in implementing non-custodial sanctions and measures aimed at the prevention of violent extremism in compliance with human rights. 3 4 5 Amira Yahyaoui, President, Al Bawsala NGO, Tunisia, quoted in Ilya Lozovsky, A Wake-Up Call for NGOs, Foreign Policy, 5 June 2015, available from http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/05/a-wake-upcall-for-ngos-tunisia-arab-spring-oslo-freedom-forum/. For more information on the post-2015 sustainable development goals process, see the United Nations Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform, available at https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300. Goal 16 (a) of the proposed sustainable development goals. 7