The Working Group on Children Recruited by Terrorist and Violent Extremist Groups is the premier non-profit organization in the world exclusively dedicated to protect the rights and well-being of child victims and survivors of terrorist use and exploitation. Founded in 2018 in the context of the CoNGO Committee to the United Nations with an aim to address violent extremist through tailored approaches and to implement comprehensive strategies to prevent violence against children at the hand of terrorist and violent extremist actors, the CRTG Working Group has firstly brought this issue to the attention of United Nations entities, United Nations Member States and informed in the areas of crime, terrorism prevention and criminal justice as related to children. In 2020, the CRTG Working Group was incorporated as an independent 501(c)3 registered charity in New York City.