The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) amended its Best Practices paper for governments to “combat the abuse of nonprofit organizations” (NPOs) by terrorists on June 25 that incorporates suggestions provided by a civil society working group. The document is a “limited update to reflect the…need to protect NPOs’ legitimate activities.”
The changes are a significant improvement over the previous document and will hopefully avoid the misuse or misinterpretation of FATF anti-terrorist financing standards that has contributed to unnecessary and harmful infringements on the rights of freedom of association and expression in some countries.