ABUJA - Nigeria - The GCTF Criminal Justice and Rule of Law (CJ-ROL) Working Group, supported by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague (ICCT), convened a Review Meeting in Abuja, Nigeria with the aim to review the draft Recommendations on the Collection, Use and Sharing of Evidence for Purposes of Criminal Prosecution of Terrorist Suspects. The meeting was co-hosted by Working Group Co-Chairs Nigeria and Switzerland.

BALI - Indonesia - The GCTF Initiative on Addressing the Challenge of Returning Families of Foreign Terrorist Fighters (“FTF Families Initiative”) Second Regional Workshop was co-chaired by the Netherlands and the United States.

CAIRO - Egypt - The GCTF Capacity-Building in the East Africa Region Region Working Group Co-Chairs, Egypt and the European Union, convened their first Plenary Meeting of the Working Group under its new scope and two-year mandate endorsed by the GCTF Coordinating Committee Meeting in New York on 18 September 2017.

AMMAN - Jordan - The Plenary Meeting was the first under the new Working Group co-chairs, Jordan and the United States, as endorsed at the Eighth GCTF Ministerial Plenary Meeting in New York, on 20 September 2017.

THE HAGUE - the Netherlands - The GCTF Criminal Justice and Rule of Law Working Group, supported by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism -The Hague (ICCT), convened an Expert Meeting in The Hague, the Netherlands, with the aim to launch the development of Recommendations on the Collection, Use and Sharing of Evidence for Purposes of Criminal Prosecution of Terrorist Suspects. 

ABU DHABI - United Arab Emirates - On 19-20 February 2018, the GCTF Countering Violent Extremism Working Group Co-Chairs, Australia and Indonesia, organized a workshop on the topic of Monitoring, Measurement and Evaluation (MM&E).

ALGIERS – Algeria - The GCTF Capacity-Building in the West Africa Region Working Group Co-Chairs, Algeria and Canada, convened the Working Groups's Plenary Meeting in Algiers, on 23-24 October 2017.