Bi-weekly News and Opinion Roundup - Oct. 10, 2018

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Events · Anti-terrorism Financing  · Civil Society · Counterterrorism   · FATF   ·   Financial Access  ·  Humanitarian Aid · Humanitarian Law · Human Rights · Sanctions

New From CSN Report: UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Warns of "Chilling Effect" on Humanitarian Aid October 4 TNI Report: The Globalization of Countering Violent Extremism Policies October 10

Events

WINGS/EFC Webinar: Get The Latest On FATF Counter-Terrorism Policy And Impact On Our Sector Global NPO Coalition on FATF - October 17 GAO Expert Briefing On Humanitarian Assistance And Banking Challenges InterAction - October 25

Anti-Terrorism Financing As U.S. Sanctions Loom, Iran Passes Anti-Terror Financing Rules Bloomberg - October 7

Civil Society Terrorism and Civil Society Council on Foreign Relations - October 5

Counterterrorism New Israel Report Exposes Role of NGO Monitor in Defaming Rights Activists Middle East Monitor - October 1 US and UK Halt Key Syria Aid Shipments Over Extremist “Taxes” IRIN News - October 2 National Strategy for Counterterrorism The White House - October 4

FATF FATF Rejects Saudi Membership, Citing Lack of Action Against Illicit Funding Press TV - October 1 The ABCs of FATF: What  Nonprofits Need to Know The Global NPO Coalition on FATF - October 5

Financial Access Humanitarian Groups Keep an Eye on Blockchain Financial Times - September 24 Policy Responses to De-risking: Progress Report on the CGD Working Group’s 2015 Recommendations Center for Global Development - October 1 © UNHCR/David Azia

Humanitarian Aid Pakistan tells 18 international NGOs to leave: ActionAid Reuters - October 4 Jerusalem to Remove UN Agency for Palestinians from City AP News - October 4

Humanitarian Law Burundi Orders Foreign NGOs to Comply with Law Imposing Ethnic Staff Quotas Business Day - September 30 Can International Humanitarian Law Restrain Armed Groups? Lessons from NGO Work on Anti-Personnel Landmines Lawfare - September 30 U.N. Court Orders U.S. to Lift Iran Sanctions on Humanitarian Goods Wall Street Journal - October 3

Human Rights France: Aid Worker Convicted for Tweet Human Rights Watch - September 27 Egypt Judge Slaps Travel Ban on Prominent Rights Lawyer WMBF News - October 6 © 2018 Loan Torondel

Sanctions Senate Panel Advances Syria Sanctions that Also Target Russia The Washington Post - September 27 JPMorgan Chase Fined for Sanctions Violations American Shipper - October 8

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