April 21, 2021 In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, C&SN and over 40 organizations urged the administration to relieve sanctions
March 26, 2021 In a letter to President Biden and other key policy makers, 55 organizations including the Charity & Security Network called on the administration to address a range of pressing humanitarian concerns in
March 3, 2021 In this in-depth interview, C&SN Director Paul Carroll joins the host of Justice For All Now Hena Zuberi to discuss C&SN's work to protect and promote the ability of nonprofit groups to
The Biden Administration on February 16, 2021 removed Ansarallah (aka the Houthis) from two U.S. terrorist lists, less than three weeks after the group was added to the lists by the outgoing Trump administration. At
On Friday, February 5, the US State Department announced its intention to revoke the last-minute Trump Administration designation of the Houthis in Yemen as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). The designation was broadly opposed by humanitarian and peacebuilding
C&SN, a coalition of more than 500 civil society representatives dedicated to protecting the rights of nonprofit organizations that help communities and address pressing human rights issues, urges Secretary Pompeo and the Trump Administration to
Despite release of guidance for delivery of Covid-19 relief in areas impacted by U.S. sanctions, humanitarian and medical relief organizations are having difficulty getting supplies where they need to go, due to sanctions restrictions. With
We are aware of more and more reports and testimonials that the Trump Administration and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are considering designating the Houthis in Yemen as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Such a
In a report submitted to the UN General Assembly in mid-October, Alena Douhan, the UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, found that unilateral sanctions
The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Feb. 27, 2020 issued General License 8 “Authorizing Certain Humanitarian Trade Transactions Involving the Central Bank of Iran” and related FAQs in conjunction with the formalization of the Swiss
