News and Opinion
Bi-weekly News and Opinion Roundup
- August 1, 2019
Anti-Terrorist Financing · Civil Society · Counterterrorism · Countering Violent Extremism · Financial Inclusion · Foreign Agents Registration Act · Global Fragility · Humanitarian Aid · Sanctions
New From C&SN
Letter to Senators: Help International Charities Facing Problems with Banking Services
August 1
July 29 Webinar: Due Process? The State of U.S. Treasury Terrorist Listing Procedures
July 29
The Queen's Speech
July 12
Anti-Terrorist Financing
Banks Can Manage Anti-Laundering Risk From
Charities,
'Derisking' of Sector Must Stop, Experts Say
Thompson Reuters Accelus - June 26
Treasury Department Bureaucrats Risk Jumpstarting Islamic State Resurgence
The Hill - July 18
Civil Society
Opinion: NGOs — Here's How to Strengthen Your Engagement with Governments
Devex - July 26
Understanding the Resourcing Landscape for Small and Informal Civil Society
Groups in the Global South: Challenges, Trends and Behaviours
Identified Through a
Comparative Analysis of Grey Literature
CIVICUS - July
Egypt’s New NGOs Law Scraps Imprisonment, Allows Foreign Funding
Egypt Today - July 24
Non-Profits Face Cash Crackdown
Tribune 242 (Bahamas) - July 24
Diverse Coalition Calls for Disbanding State
Department Commission on Unalienable Rights
Human Rights First - July 22
Where Parties Fail, Can Civil Society Succeed?
The Asian Age - July 18
Project Launches to Develop International Financial Reporting Standards for Charities
Civil Society - July 17
Government’s Closure of Human Rights NGO Another
Blow for Fundamental Freedoms in Equatorial Guinea
CIVICUS - July 15
Sindh Govt to Introduce New Law to Monitor NGOs
The News (Pakistan) - July 13
No Approval Needed to Prevent, Counter Violent Extremism
The Star (Kenya) - July 12
25 Coast Civil Groups Demand Review of Anti-
Terrorism Law ‘Curtailing’ Rights Organizations
Capitol News (Kenya) - July 9
Equatorial Guinea: Dissolution of an NGO Shows Escalating Crackdown on Civil Society
Amnesty International - July 9
Counterterrorism
UN: Afghan, NATO Forces Killed More Civilians This Year Than Insurgent Groups
VOA News - July 30
India’s Opposition Fiercely
Opposes ‘Draconian’ Anti-Terror Law
The Irish Times - July 30
House Proposal Would Force
Disclosures of Terror Watchlist
Associated Press - July 17
Egyptian Parliament Approves
More NGO Restrictions
Middle East Monitor - July 17
The Massive Perils of the Latest
U.N. Resolution on Terrorism
Just Security - July 8
Countering Violent Extremism
The International Security Echo-Chamber: Getting Civil Society Into the Room
Just Security - July 31
Preventing Violent Extremism
While Promoting Human Rights:
Toward a Clarified UN Approach
International Peace Institute - July 18
The Silo Problem: Connecting
the UN’s Efforts to Promote
Sustainable Development and
Prevent Violent Extremism
Brookings - July 15
Financial Inclusion
Perverse Outcomes: FATF, Bitcoin
and Financial Exclusion
Yahoo! Finance - July 29
Joint Statement on Risk-
Focused Bank Secrecy Act/
Anti-Money Laundering Supervision
FFIEC - July 22
Foreign Agents Registration Act
Global Fragility
The Foreign Agents
Registration Act Is Broken
Foreign Policy - July 22
Opinion: What the Global
Fragility
Act Could Mean for
Development Investments
Devex - July 25
Humanitarian Aid
U.N. to Investigate Accusations That Russia,
Syria Are Deliberately Targeting Hospitals
Washington Post - August 1
Air Strike on Libya Hospital Kills Five Doctors
BBC News - July 28
UN to Resume Food Aid in Yemen
The Malaysian Insight - July 19
Aid Access and Aid Worker Safety:
Delivering Help in a War Zone
The New Humanitarian - July 19
The Case for Humanitarian Aid to North Korea
Foreign Policy - July 17
Head to Head: Biometrics and Aid
The New Humanitarian - July 17
Giving Fraud the Finger: Are Biometrics the Final Word in Preventing Aid Diversion?
Pro Bono Australia - July 11
Afghanistan: What is the Humanitarian Cost of a Never-Ending War?
Euro News - July 11
Want to Help People in Venezuela? Your Best Bet Might Be Bitcoin.
Vox - July 10
Factsheet: Key Trends in Global Humanitarian Assistance 2019
Development Initiatives - June 25
Sanctions
Worldwide: Sanctions Round
Up: Second Quarter 2019
Mondaq - July 25
In Trump-Iran Showdown, Afghan Refugees Are Neglected But
Devastating Collateral Damage
USA Today - July 24
Featured Charity & Security Resource
The Prohibition on Material Support and Its Impacts on Nonprofits
(PDF)
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