(Transcript from SBS World News Radio)
Australian foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop has chaired a high-level meeting of the United Nations Security Council, addressing violent extremism.
Australia holds the rotating Council presidency for the month of November.
Ms Bishop told the Security Council today's terror networks are younger, more violent, more innovative and highly interconnected.
Abby Dinham reports.
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon opened the meeting with a call to action; not military action, but one of social inclusion to protect people from radicalisation.
"People need equality and opportunity in their lives. They need to feel inclusion by their governments and trust from their leaders. As we work together to address the challenge, we must also strive to avoid responses to terrorism that are carried out in a way that exacerbates the problem, such as when the efforts are not sufficiently targeted and communities feel victimized by human rights abused committed in the name of counter-terrorism."
Representatives from the 15 Security Council members, including the US, Russia, China, Britain and France, along with other nations such as Saudi Arabia, Syria and Pakistan, took turns in addressing the meeting.
The UN's Counter-Terrorism Committee said some states have failed to "adequately criminalise" travel by terrorists who transit through their territories on the way to other countries.
It also reported gaps in the international exchange of information between law enforcement and intelligence agencies to bring terrorists to justice.
But Ban Ki-Moon says care must be taken to ensure the ambition to stop terrorism doesn't override basic human rights.
"Through our collective efforts, we must ensure that all counter-terrorism actions and policies are consistent with international human rights and humanitarian laws."
Australia's ambassador to the UN, Gary Quinlan told the meeting the self-proclaimed Islamic State's seizure of oil fields in Syria and Iraq, and the group's ability to use smuggling routes to sell oil, is earning them up to $1.78 million a day.
IS, also known as ISIL or Daesh, has captured large expanses of Iraq and Syria, declaring an Islamic "caliphate" that extends across the border between the two.
Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop told the meeting the world has never been more at risk of terrorism.
"The threat from ISIL or Daesh, Al Nusrah Front and other affiliated groups is more dangerous, more global and more diversified than ever before. Terrorists are younger, more violent, more innovative and highly interconnected. They are masters of social media to terrorize and to recruit and are very tech savvy. They incite each other. They communicate their propaganda and violence directly into our homes to recruit disaffected young men and women."
Ms Bishop says Security Council member states have agreed to a Presidential statement on terrorism.
She says the document is a vow to stop the recruitment and travel of foreign terrorist fighters, to reject their ideologies and to disrupt terror funding sources.
"This statement reaffirms the international community's unflinching resolve. We must starve terrorist organizations of fighters, funding and legitimacy. We must act decisively and together."
Meanwhile, French authorities have identified a second French militant who appears on a beheading video released by IS at the weekend.
Officials say that one of the men shown herding prisoners to their execution is Maxime Hauchard, a Frenchman Muslim convert who left for Syria in 2013.
They say a second Frenchman, Mickael Dos Santos - a 22 year old man from a town east of Paris who converted to Islam and left for Syria in August, 2013 - has also been identified.
Dominique Adenot, the mayor of Champigny-sur-Marne, where French authorities say Mr Dos Santos was born, expressed sadness.
(Translated) "It's hugely sad, because to think that a young man could have been misled into a sort of organised crime, because when you see the Daech armed gangs, it's a mafia armed with heavy weapons, it's not a state, it's not an ideal, they're people who kill for everything and nothing. It's an abomination."
Thousands of Western volunteers have joined IS, among them more than 370 French citizens are in the region.
Meanwhile, a Dutch mother has defied official travel warnings to rescue her daughter, who had joined IS in Syria.
Last month the woman, named only as Monique, received an appeal for help from her 19 year old daughter Aicha.
The girl had converted to Islam and travelled to Syria to marry a notorious Dutch jihadi, but a year later wanted to go home.
Wearing a burka, Monique travelled to the Syrian city of Raqqa and managed to sneak her daughter out to Turkey.
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