Regional Working Group Meeting on Preventing Abuse of the Non-Profit Sector for the Purposes of Terrorist Financing
22-24 March 2011 | Bangkok, Thailand
The Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation facilitated the organization of a “Regional working group meeting on preventing abuse of the non-profit sector for the purposes of terrorist financing” in Bangkok on 22-24 March 2011. The meeting, which focused on South and Southeast Asia, was the first regional workshop in a process that will include a series of meetings to discuss the risk of terrorist abuse of the non-profit sector and to share good practices and foster cooperation in responding to that risk in different regions around the world. The meeting was convened under the auspices of the UN Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate with the support of the governments of Canada, Switzerland, and New Zealand was hosted by the Thai government. Participants included representatives from international and regional organizations active in this field, in addition to national-level officials with a role in counter-terrorist financing or charities regulation and representatives from the non-profit sector from across South and Southeast Asia.
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Click here to read the organizers' key observations.