The Committee of Experts on Terrorism, or CODEXTER, is an

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committee of experts of the

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. It was founded in 2003 to replace the Multidisciplinary Group on International Action Against Terrorism . In 2018 CODEXTER became the Council of Europe Counter-Terrorism Committee . One of the principal functions of the organisation is to make profiles of each member's

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and

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al counter-terrorism plans. These profiles are short reports on member states' counter-terrorism measures.

Criticism

Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and sup ...

has urged CODEXTER to delete the last paragraph of the organisation's Preamble, which attempts to define

terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

, as it ''"does not sufficiently distinguish between unlawful acts and legitimate, non-violent opposition to the actions or non-action of states"''Amnesty International’s representations on the February 2005 draft Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism
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