Security & Facilitation

AVSEC Culture - Beyond the Standards Welcome to the inaugural Global Aviation Security Symposium (AVSEC2017) being held in collaboration with Airports Council International (ACI) from 12 – 14 September, 2017 at ICAO Headquarters in…

A high-level Ministerial Conference on Aviation Security held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, last week endorsed a new Africa and Middle East Aviation Security Roadmap to align future programmes and targets with ICAO’s new Global Aviation…

Speakers, sponsors, exhibitors and attendees are firming up their plans to participate in AVSEC2017, which is being held in Montreal, Canada during the week of 11 September 2017. This important event coincides with another key aviation…

ICAO is committed to working with Member States to establish standards, specifications and best practices in all machine readable travel document (MRTD) related areas. Through our Traveller Identification Programme (TRIP) Strategy, ICAO…

Dramatic events in the past two years (Bruxelles, Istanbul, Paris, Nice, Copenhagen, Orlando, Ankara, Thalys, etc.) have shown us that even if the security threat in aviation  remains, it is shifting landside, to public areas. These public…

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) are working together to help States achieve sustainable improvements in the field of travel facilitation and security of travel…