A new Executive Order (EO) signed by President Trump on September 10, 2019, specifically targets correspondent bank relationships as possible sources of terrorist financing. The new order, which gives U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC)
The Charity & Security Network (C&SN), in partnership with the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) and 11 other member organizations, sent a letter to U.S. officials urging defeat of Kenya’s proposal to designate Al-Shabaab a terrorist
Increasingly, financial service companies and online payment platforms are bowing to pressure from outside groups to “deplatform” or cancel the accounts of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) and human rights defenders working in global hot spots.
On 5 August 2019 the Trump Administration issued an executive order imposing additional sanctions on the Government of Venezuela that specifically allows “transactions related to provision of articles such as food, clothing and medicine intended to
While criticism continues over the the verdicts in the NGO trial, Egypt’s draft NGO law has provoked a significant local and international uproar. The Cairo Institute for Human Rights (with over 40 other local rights organizations), Human
Click here for a printable PDF of this Issue Brief The U.S. counterterrorism framework impedes the work of legitimate nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in two ways: first, it prohibits anyone from engaging in a wide
Brett Wolf, Regulatory Intelligence reporter at Thompson Reuters Accelus, writes about Banking for Nonprofits - The Way Forward, a recent publication from the Consortium for Financial Access, which the Charity & Security Network (C&SN) is a member of. Andrea
Due Process? The State of U.S. Treasury’s Terrorist Listing Procedures Monday July 29 at 2 pm EDT View the Recording View Webinar Slides by Kay Guinane View Webinar Slides by Hina Shamsi View
The primary prohibition on material support of terrorism is in the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), which prohibits material support to Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) designated by the Secretary of State. In
Bank derisking, one of the most significant threats to non-profit organizations (NPOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), just got a publicity boost by none other than Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, who also serves as