Click here for a printable PDF of this fact sheet In recent years, two U.S. organizations have conducted smear campaigns against charities and human rights groups that appear intended to shut down or limit humanitarian
A new working paper from the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly summarizes previously published recommendations to protect principled humanitarian action impacted by counterterrorism legislation. The paper, Desk review of
In an update to its National Strategy for Combating Terrorist and Other Illicit Financing, the U.S. Treasury Department cites the important role of charities in countering terrorism, emphasizes the use of the risk-based approach, and
A partial fix to the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act (ATCA) was enacted as part of the 2020 omnibus budget legislation, signed into law in December 2019. The amended language, included as Section 903 of the
Securing American Nonprofit Organizations Against Terrorism Act of 2019 (H.R. 2476) was signed into law by President Trump on Tuesday January 28th. The bill authorizes $375 million over the next five years for the Department
Concerns about politically motivated enforcement of the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) have once again been raised after three Senators sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting an investigation of the National
The Global Fragility Act of 2019 (GFA), which establishes the first-ever comprehensive U.S. government approach to preventing global violence and instability, was signed into law December 20, 2019 as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act,
The Zionist Advocacy Center (TZAC) has announced the unsealing of a new case challenging the tax-exempt status of the New Israel Fund under New York state law. From the filings available at press time, it
Responding to the U.S. Department of Justice's Motion to Dismiss, the Zionist Advocacy Center (TZAC) filed a Notice of Voluntary Dismissal in its False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit against Oxfam GB on December 18, 2019.
After circulating a discussion draft for several months, the Senate introduced its version of a Bank Secrecy Act bill with the ILLICIT CASH Act (S. 2563) on September 26, 2019. Congressional efforts to update