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#Lawfare is not a hypothetical threat. It's happening now — frivolous lawsuits, baseless investigations, disinformation campaigns — all aimed at silencing nonprofits.

C&SN's outcome report from our 2025 workshop breaks down the landscape & offers strategies to fight back.

🔗https://bit.ly/47LOK2T

World must define terrorism to protect human rights: UN expert GENEVA : States must urgently adopt an international definition of terrorism to protect human rights from terrorism and excessive State responses to it, says a new report by Ben Saul, the UN Special R...

The UN's top #counterterrorism & #human rights expert sounds the alarm: vague definitions of "terrorism" enable govs. to target activists, #nonprofits, and #HRDs.
The world needs a narrower, rights-respecting definition — and the U.S. is a prime example of why.
🔗 bit.ly/4cPMUlb
#NonprofitRights

📢 C&SN is hiring a Senior Legal Advisor!
We're looking for an attorney with expertise in protecting civil society to help defend the nonprofit sector. Deadline: Mar. 11.
Details & application: 👉 bit.ly/4b3LfWn

AML Conversations: When Compliance Collides with Civil Society: How AML/CFT Pressures Are Impacting Nonprofits Explore how AML/CFT regulations, FATF’s U.S. mutual evaluation, and rising de-risking are affecting nonprofits. Experts from CSN, EarthRights International.

AML/CFT rules meant to stop terrorism financing are instead cutting #nonprofits off from banking, delaying #humanitarian aid, and putting lives at risk.

C&SN's Poorvika Mehra & Sarah Gardiner joined AML Conversations podcast to sound the alarm. 🔗 bit.ly/40rPPcf

#NonprofitRights

Updated Issue Brief: The Prohibition on Material Support & Its Impacts on Nonprofits - Charity & Security Network This update includes new information about how material support laws are becoming more relevant to a broader swath of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) under the second Trump administration. The original...

Under Trump 2.0, "material support" to terrorist laws are being used to target a broad swath of #nonprofits — immigrant rights, #environmental, #HumanRights, & Palestinian solidarity groups among them.
C&SN's issue brief breaks down what your org needs to know.
🔗 bit.ly/4ro6N6n
#NonprofitRights

⏰ Deadline: March 15

The UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures is accepting input on how #sanctions & overcompliance harm peoples' right to food — including obstructions caused to #nonprofits & #aid.

This is your chance to shape the global policy. 🔗 bit.ly/4d4ACFo

#CivilSociety

📢 C&SN is hiring a Senior Legal Advisor!
We're looking for an attorney with expertise in protecting civil society to help defend the nonprofit sector. Deadline: Mar. 11.
Details & application: 👉 bit.ly/4b3LfWn

Republican State Attorneys General Call on DOJ to Investigate Climate Change Organizations - Charity & Security Network Washington, D.C. – On Feb. 12, 2026, nineteen Republican State Attorneys General released a letter calling on Attorney General Bondi and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate over 150 climate...

19 Republican AGs want DOJ to investigate 150+ climate nonprofits for foreign influence violations.
Today it's #climate groups. The whole sector should be paying attention.
👉 bit.ly/4s0nQN6

Republicans Use Hearing on Foreign Influence to Attack Nonprofit Sector - Charity & Security Network Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, the Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee continued its probe into U.S. nonprofits through a hearing on foreign influence on U.S. politics and cul...

Republicans on the House Ways & Means Committee advanced damaging narratives about the nonprofit sector during a hearing on foreign influence.

👉 bit.ly/4sstzeg

C&SN Bi-weekly Newsletter: March 5, 2026 Email from Charity & Security Network Donate Now Become A Member   Bi-weekly News & Opinion - March 5, 2026 New from C&SN Republicans Use Hearing on Foreign Influence to Attack Nonprofit Sector At a

📫 C&SN Newsletter is out — Mar. 5, 2026
#Nonprofit rights & #NationalSecurity news you need to know.

👉Read & subscribe: conta.cc/4b6h0Ox

Bills moving through #Florida would allow the governor to designate groups as "domestic terrorist organizations" under a broad definition. Students could be expelled just for "promoting" a designated group.
#CivilSociety experts are calling it a #FirstAmendment crisis.

🔗https://bit.ly/4rSS4S1

Israel ordered 37 aid groups to hand over Palestinian staff lists or lose their right to operate in #Gaza. A court has temporarily blocked the ban, but the threat to #humanitarian NGOs remains.

🔗https://bit.ly/4rIaQLL

Republicans Use Hearing on Foreign Influence to Attack Nonprofit Sector - Charity & Security Network Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, the Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee continued its probe into U.S. nonprofits through a hearing on foreign influence on U.S. politics and cul...

On Feb. 10 the Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing investigating foreign influence in the #nonprofit sector - and used it as an opportunity to continue its campaign against #CivilSociety. Read our analysis 👇
bit.ly/3OTLcoI

🚨C&SN is #hiring! Senior Legal Advisor

The Senior Legal Advisor will play a key role in developing and implementing legal strategies and resources to protect and defend the #nonprofit sector.

Deadline: Mar 11

View the full JD & application details here: bit.ly/3ZYcZH5

CALL NOW: Protect our ability to dissent!

Florida bills would let the Governor secretly designate groups as "domestic terrorist organizations" with vague standards that could sweep in lawful dissent.

This is exactly the kind of law that chills #CivilSociety. If you're in #Florida, call your rep now. @commoncause.org
🔗 bit.ly/4l3mZbM

Republican State Attorneys General Call on DOJ to Investigate Climate Change Organizations - Charity & Security Network Washington, D.C. – On Feb. 12, 2026, nineteen Republican State Attorneys General released a letter calling on Attorney General Bondi and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate over 150 climate...

19 Republican Attorney Generals urged the Department of Justice to investigate 150+ #climate #nonprofits for foreign influence — targeting groups for routine advocacy, litigation, & research.

Today it's climate orgs. But the precedent being set affects the whole sector.
🔗 bit.ly/4017jMm

Federal Terrorism Law and U.S. Civil Society: An Explainer Explainer on federal terrorism offenses and designations affecting U.S. nonprofits and activists, including material support laws, SDGT and FTO designations, sentencing enhancements, and First Amendme...

Overly broad federal terrorism laws can ensnare #nonprofits, #activists, and #funders. @icnl.bsky.social's new explainer breaks down the legal landscape every #CivilSociety org needs to understand right now.

Know the law. Protect your mission. 🔗 bit.ly/4qQIKfV

The Trump administration wants to put antifa on trial A case in Texas offers an opportunity to do so

The outcome of the #Prairieland shooting trial in #Texas could determine how the #Trump administration pursues #terrorism cases against alleged members of #Antifa.

www.economist.com/united-state...

As #Trump weaponizes the #IRS against #nonprofits, what would your org. do if they lost their tax-exempt status? Join the Capacity Shop for an interactive Q&A with law experts to explore implications of losing 501c3 status and how nonprofits can respond.
📆Mar. 5 @ 130PM ET
👉https://bit.ly/473YKUP

📫 C&SN Newsletter: Feb. 19, 2026
🗞 News & opinion: #Nonprofit rights & #NationalSecurity
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🚨C&SN #hiring! Senior Legal Advisor
⚖️UK court rules Palestine Action unlawfully designated a terrorist organization
🤝The nonprofit sector's unexpected ally: the #FATF

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Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions Kimberly Prost and Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza vow US reprisals will not affect work of international criminal court

The #Trump Administration’s #sanctions on International Criminal Court officials have caused widespread over-compliance by European banks terrified of losing U.S. relationships, making simple tasks like booking flights or hotel rooms impossible for the targeted officials.
bit.ly/4rvjJrW

UK Court Rules that Palestine Action Unlawfully Listed as Terrorist Organization - Charity & Security Network Washington, D.C. – On Feb. 13, 2026, a court in the UK found that the government’s July 2025 listing of Palestine Action as a terrorist organization under UK law was “disproportionate and unlawful.” T...

On Feb. 13 a court in the UK found that the government’s July 2025 listing of Palestine Action as a terrorist organization under UK law was “disproportionate and unlawful” and was a "very significant interference" with rights of speech and assembly.👇
charityandsecurity.org/news/uk-cour...

The Nonprofit Sector’s Unexpected Ally Sarah Gardiner and Poorvika Mehra on the Financial Action Task Force and Why It Matters

C&SN's Poorvika Mehra and Sarah Gardiner write that the upcoming U.S. FATF evaluation offers #nonprofits an opportunity to highlight how the #Trump admin. is weaponizing AML/CFT laws against #CivilSociety.
Read more published by Democracy Without Exception 👇
bit.ly/3MClWCG

🚨C&SN is #hiring! Senior Legal Advisor

The Senior Legal Advisor will play a key role in developing and implementing legal strategies and resources to protect and defend the #nonprofit sector.

View the full job posting here: charityandsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

Security Dilemma: Material Support with Ashleigh Subramanian-Montgomery - Charity & Security Network ⁠ Ashleigh Subramanian-Montgomery⁠, senior director for policy and advocacy at the Charity & Security Network (C&SN), featured in Security Dilemma, a podcast hosted by the John Quincy Adams Society ho...

🎙️C&SN's Ashleigh Subramanian-Montgomery featured recently in a podcast with the Quincy Adams Society where she discussed the many ways #sanctions impact #HumanRights. 👇
bit.ly/4tpzAK9

Federal Court Orders Free Speech Protections for Visa Holders, Imposes Sanctions on State, Homeland Security Departments - Charity & Security Network In a landmark ruling in September 2025, a federal judge held that the Trump Administration’s enforcement policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen visa holders based on their exercise o...

In case you missed it: last month a federal judge sanctioned the Trump administration for "deliberately" violating the #FirstAmendment rights of pro-Palestinian #HumanRights student activists. 👇
bit.ly/4aiehRL

C&SN Statement on the Minnesota ICE Crisis – and a Renewed Call for Counter-terrorism Reform - Charity & Security Network Washington, D.C. – The Charity & Security Network (C&SN) is deeply alarmed at the tragic loss of life and ongoing violence in Minnesota, perpetrated by agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforceme...

📣C&SN Statement on Minnesota ICE Crisis

The Trump admin's justification for executing peaceful activists & attacking protesters on the grounds of combating “domestic terrorism” is unconscionable, laying bare systemic flaws within the U.S. national security framework...

👉Read more: bit.ly/4kj0M8W

🗞️Newsletter! conta.cc/4qoci4h
📜Statement on #ICE crisis in #Minnesota & call for #counterterrorism legal reform
🎥C&SN features on a podcast about impact of #sanctions on #HumanRights
🔎Legal analysis on court order sanctioning US State & DHS
❗Ways & Means ask IRS to target #nonprofits
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Highlight Reel: Launch Event International Day Against Unilateral Coercive Measures - Charity & Security Network Washington, D.C. – On Dec. 4, 2025, the Charity & Security Network (C&SN) held a special launch event to mark the inaugural International Day Against Unilateral Coercive Measures (UCMs), as establishe...

❗In case you missed it, check out our webinar recording / summary of our special launch event for the UN International Day Against Unilateral Coercive Measures. Experts discussed the history of #sanctions, the many ways they impede #HumanRights, & what the future holds.
👉 bit.ly/4kj20RK

The #Trump administration expanded the Mexico City Policy, also known as the Global Gag Rule, blocking federal funding from #DEI, #gender equality work, & abortion-related work implemented by #nonprofits and other kinds of orgs.

@devex.com covers it in their latest podcast 👇
bit.ly/3MkTMfi