ECNL is co-organizing an event on January 24 on Preventing Terrorist Abuse of NGOs, with the European Foundation Centre and Human Security Collective.
We are facing a context where governments around the globe want to ensure that terrorist financing is prevented. What are the proportionate tools and measures to do this? Is there a need for tighter transparency and accountability rules/mechanisms for non-profit organisations (NPOs)?
In some cases new regulations have led to severe restrictions on NPOs ability to work. An intergovernmental agency, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), has been developing recommendations for anti-terrorist financing laws and regulations, which are being implemented by some 180 countries. Now FATF is undertaking an update of its basic framework for legal oversight of non-profit organisations in the counterterrorism context, beginning with research to establish “typologies” of terrorist abuse of non-profit organisations.
We are pleased to invite you to join an exchange with FATF representatives. Nigel Tarling, Head of International Programme, Charity Commission, and Co-Chair, FATF Risk Management and Trends Working Group (Typologies), and a panel of civil society representatives and non-profit law experts will provide background and analysis to help increase understanding of issues currently under discussion in the review process and in implementation of R8, and to give stakeholders an opportunity to comment on any recommendations before they are drafted. A transnational civil society working group has been conducting its own research and analysis on risks and vulnerabilities of the sector and will share key findings at the meeting.
The event takes place on 24 January 2014 from 11:30 until 14:30 at at Philanthropy House – 94 Rue Royale, 1000 Brussels, lunch will be provided.