New initiative launched to shield terrorism victims from online harm
The UN has launched a new initiative to protect victims of terrorist attacks from online harm and re-traumatisation, drawing on harrowing survivor accounts, from the Nova Music Festival in Israel to an attack on a FIFA World Cup final viewing party in Uganda. The initiative was launched at an event on Friday marking the International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism. “It's not just another date on the calendar ,” Saynab Warsame, who survived a terrorist attack in Somalia, said in a message to the UN commemorative event . “It's a day that reminds me of who I lost, who I am and who I am still becoming.” Acts of terrorism kill and maim thousands of people every year around the world, and online harm has been reported by survivors in every region. “In today's digital world, memories are fragile,” Ms. Rachel Goldberg-Polin is a dual national of the United States and Israel whose 23-year-old son, Hersh, was among more than 250 people captured during the 2023 Hamas attack at the Nova Music Festival in Israel.
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The choice is hard, but the choice is ours.” The scene was a watch party for the FIFA World Cup finals in 2010 in Uganda, when in the 78th minute, two suicide bombers detonated their explosives: more than 70 people were killed and many others injured – including Hassan Ndugwa.
