Although they’re not alone in shouldering the weight of the counter-terror financing legal environment, “the specific profile of women’s rights organizing and organizations has meant that they experience these rules in a number of adverse and often gender-specific ways,” according to a new report from Women Peacemakers Program and the International Human Rights Clinic at Duke University Law School, Tightening the Purse Strings: What Countering Terrorism Financing Costs Gender Equality and Security.
While 87% of the report’s survey respondents said their work involved countering terrorism and/or violent extremism, 90% said that counterterrorism measures had an adverse impact on their work, and the report notes that counter-terror financing regimes have exacerbated this. Ultimately, these measures have dictated how, where and sometimes if women’s rights organizations can undertake their core work.
Read the full report here.