News and Opinion: Global Fragility and Violence Reduction Act, The Humanitarian Sector in Debt, and More

Bi-weekly News and Opinion Roundup - Sept. 12th, 2018

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Anti-Terrorism Financing · Countering Violent Extremism · Counterterrorism · FATF · Financial Access

· Humanitarian Aid · Sanctions ·

New From CSN

Examination of Bank Derisking in Four Countries Finds Common Themes

September 6

ODI's Study of West Bank and Gaza Civil Society Finds "A Humanitarian Sector in Debt"

September 11

Global Fragility and Violence Reduction Act Introduced in Senate

September 11

House Subcommittee Hears Need for Balance Between Security and Humanitarian Needs

September 12

Anti-Terrorism Financing

Expanded Examination Cycle for Certain Small Insured Depository Institutions and U.S. Branches and Agencies of Foreign Banks

Federal Register - August 29

Countering Violent Extremism

Focusing on the Family to

Prevent Violent Extremism

Creative - August 27

War of Ideas: Inside the Fight to

Prevent an ISIS Resurgence

Open Canada - September 4

Kenya, Civil Society Launch Platform

to Curb Violent Extremism

Xinua News - September 5

United Nations Peace Operations in Complex Environments: Charting the Right Course

Saferworld - September 2018

Counterterrorism

PODCAST: UN Counter-Terrorism

B ody Says Returning Terrorist Fighters a ‘Considerable Challenge’ to Member States

UN News - August 27

U.N. Peace Operations Should Get

Off the Counter-Terror Bandwagon

Just Security - September 4

FATF

Belgium’s Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

FATF - September 2

Mutual Evaluation Report of Bahrain: Bahrain’s Measures to Fight Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism and Proliferation

FATF - September 4

Financial Access

Bank of America Freezing Accounts of

C ustomers Suspected of Not Being US Citizens

The Sacramento Bee - August 30

The U.S.-Mexico Border Is

Becoming a Banking Desert

Bloomberg - August 30

Morocco and the Spanish

Bank Choke Ceuta and Melilla

El Confidencial - September 1

Addressing the “De-Risking” Challenge

Financial Services Volunteer Corps - August 30

The Impact of Bank De-Risking on the

Humanitarian Response to the Syrian Crisis

Humanitarian Policy Group - August

‘A Humanitarian Sector in Debt’ Counter-terrorism,

Bank De-Risking and Financial Access for NGOs

in the West Bank and Gaza

Humanitarian Policy Group - August

Counter-terrorism, Bank De-Risking and Humanitarian Response: a Path Forward - Key Findings

Humanitarian Policy Group - August

Displaced Kachhin Villagers. Zau Ring Hpra—AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian man carries food supplies at the Khan Yunis refugee camp. Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images