The Task Force on Humanitarian Access, co-chaired by Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Todd Young (R-IN), released Denial, Delay, Diversion: Tackling Access Challenges in an Evolving Humanitarian Landscape on Sept. 18. The Task Force, launched by the Center
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
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
On June 25, 2019 authors of the recently-published guidance document “Banking NPOs - The Way Forward”, Andrea Hall and John Byrne, spoke with Charity & Security Network's Kay Guinane about their publication and tips for banking
As a key partner of the Consortium for Financial Access the Charity & Security Network is pleased to announce the release of a new guidance document, Banking Nonprofit Organizations – The Way Forward. The nonprofit
Interfering with the financial access of nonprofits operations designed to address post-conflict reconstruction or counter violent extremism "may in fact hinder other components of counterterrorism efforts," states a new conference report generated from a UK-Swiss
Over the past three years, progress has been made with the problem of derisking and the situation has stabilized so that no country is at risk of losing access to international payments services. At the
In comments submitted to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Charity & Security Network urges the agency to use the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) as a vehicle for incentivizing banks to provide financial services
A UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights has criticized counter-terrorism laws for imposing “chilling effects on the provision of humanitarian aid for people desperately in need of help.” Agnès Callamard, the UN Special Rapporteur
In a study of implementing partners of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and State Department humanitarian assistance projects in four high-risk countries—Syria, Somalia, Haiti and Kenya—the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that
