Bi-weekly News and Opinion Roundup - November 18, 2019

Events · Civil Society · Counterterrorism · Counter-Terrorism Financing · Financial Action Task Force · Foreign Agents Registration Act · Human Rights · Humanitarian Aid · International Humanitarian Law · Sanctions

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Events

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Risky Business: Reframing the Fundamentals of Risk Management for Humanitarians PHAP (online) - November 21

Civil Society Federal Court Rules Suspicionless Searches of Travelers Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional  Electronic Frontier Foundation - November 12 Civic Freedoms Are Under Attack. What Can Be Done? Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - October 30

Counterterrorism

Nearly Twenty Years Later: It’s Time to Reset Our Approach to Countering Terrorism Just Security - November 15   How the Judiciary Is Chipping Away at the War on Terror Foreign Policy in Focus - October 28

Counter-Terrorism Financing Joint Opinion on Money Laundering, and Terrorist Financing Risks in the Financial Sector Lexology - November 13  The Song Remains the Same AML RightSource - November 6 Alert: “The Treasury Department Issues a Framework for OFAC Compliance” JD Supra - November 4

Financial Action Task Force

Tom Keatinge on FATF, Terror Finance and the Misplaced ‘Obsession with Transparency’ RUSI - November 7

Foreign Agent Registration Act Advisory Opinion Pursuant to 28 CFR Sec. 5.2 [FARA] U.S. Department of Justice, National Security Division - October 2019

Human Rights 5 Things Funders Should Know About the Impact of Human Rights Activism Open Democracy - November 11

Humanitarian Aid

I’m a Humanitarian. Don’t Prosecute Me for Doing My Job The New Humanitarian - November 12 Aid Workers Question USAID Counter-terror Clause in Nigeria The New Humanitarian - November 5 How Blockchain Technology Has Changed the Game for Syrian Refugees in Jordan The National - November 3

International Humanitarian Law

Sanctions

Two Truths and a Lie: Seventy Years of the Geneva Conventions ICRC Blog Humanitarian Law & Policy - November 14 No True Accountability Three Years After Bombing of MSF-Supported Hospital MSF - October 30

Economic Sanctions: Agencies Assess Impacts on Targets, and Studies Suggest Several Factors Contribute to Sanctions’ Effectiveness GAO - October 2019 Doctor: I Deliver Health Care in North Korea. Sanctions Make the Humanitarian Crisis Worse USA Today - November 7 North Korea Sanctions Lead to Deaths of Innocent Civilians, Report Says Wall Street Journal - October 30   UK Sanctions: Where Are We Now? Open Access Government UK - October 30

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