'Significant' risk of terrorists using charities

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 20 December 2007

The Government has dismissed the need for a 'good faith' defence for humanitarian charities that accidentally come into financial contact with proscribed terrorist organisations.

The rejection came in the joint HM Treasury and Home Office response to their consultation on the Government's proposed measures, published in May, to protect charities from terrorist abuse. Some of the 23 respondents to the consultation expressed concern that humanitarian work in certain parts of the world would be...

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