Suppressing the Financing of Terrorism

The Convention, in its Article 2 recognizes that any person who by any means directly or indirectly, unlawfully or wilfully, provides or collects funds with the intention that they should be used or in the knowledge that they are to be used, in full or in part, in order to carry out any act which constitutes an offence under certain named treaties, commits an offence. The treaties listed are those that are already adopted and in force and which address acts of unlawful interference with such activities as deal with air transport and maritime transport. Also cited is the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 15 December 1997. 

The Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism also provides that, over and above the acts mentioned, providing or collecting funds toward any other act intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to a civilian, or to any other person not taking an active part in the hostilities in the situation of armed conflict, when the purpose of such act, by its nature or context, is to intimidate a population, or to compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act, would be deemed an offence under the Convention.  

United Nations General Assembly A/52/653, 25 November 1997. See http //www.un.org/law/ cod/terroris.htm. 

In 1980 the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America adopted a definition of terrorism which read  

Even this definition although narrower than the 1980 definition cited above is not sufficiently comprehensive to cover for instance the terrorist who hijacks an air plane for his own personal gain. The difficulty in defining the term seems to lie in its association with political aims of the terrorist as is found in the definition that 

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International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in resolutimi 54/109 of 9 December 1999. 

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