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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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:
- Dallas Morning News
- USA Today
- The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Oct. 2009 and May 2010
- The Washington Post
- CNN
- New York (NY) Daily News
- The Daily Tell
- The National: US treasury defends charity law in wake of criticism
- London School of Economics Centre for Civil Society
- other media (e.g. CQ Weekly, Tax Analysts)
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
