The Charity and Security Network presents How the Work of Charities Can Counter Terror and How U.S. Laws Get in the Way. A December 2009 report based a panel disccsuion event held on March 20, 2009 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.  Nonprofit leaders from the U.S, Colombia, Palestinian states and Philippines explained how ill-advised counterterrorism measures diminish the critical work of humanitarian and development groups and exacerbate some of the root causes of terror, such as poverty, religious persecution, and exclusion from the political process. 

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Date: 
June 7, 2010
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Kay Guinane, Program Manager
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CSN Press Releases:

June 21, 2010 Nonprofit and Legal Experts to Share their Dismay Over and Perspectives on Supreme Court’s Decision in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project
June 4, 2010
Broad Based Group Asks Obama to Fix Security Laws that Harm U.S. Charities
May 14, 2010 Letter Asks Obama to Put Humanitarian Imperative First in Fixing Problems for Charities
May 7, 2010 Panel of Experts Will Review Obama’s Commitment to Charitable Giving: One Year After Cairo
April 19, 2010 U.S. Nonprofit Rights Highlighted in UN Human Rights Submission
Dec. 10, 2009 New Report: How the Work of Charities Can Counter Terror and How U.S. Laws Get in the Way
July 8, 2009 The launch of www.charityandsecuirty.org
March 9, 2009 Panel Event: Friend Not Foe: How the Work of Charities Counters Terror

On June 21, 2010, a divided U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal statute that bans support to designated terrorist organizations, even when defined to include conflict mediation, human rights training and peace-building efforts aimed at turning terrorist groups away from violence. That same day the Charity and Security Network (CSN) and the Constitution Project (CP) held a press conference to comment on the ruling. An audio file of the entire teleconference, including reactions to the decision and a question and answer period from national media, is available here.  

The Charity and Security Network (CSN) is a project of OMB Watch.  CSN, members and its work have been featured or appeared in articles by:

The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Treasury Official Acknowledges Chilling Effect On Giving of Counter-Terrorism Policies (May 26, 2010)
 
Agence France-Presse (AFP): US acknowledges terror finance rules hurt charity gifts