Comparative study of enabling environments for associations and businesses 2015, para. 64
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The United States has exhibited harsher treatment of associations for violating the Anti-Terrorism Act, which prohibits "knowingly provid[ing] material support", including funding, to terrorist organizations. In March 2007, Chiquita Brands International was only fined for knowingly making direct payments to terrorists for protection from violence in Colombia, whereas, nine United States charities have been shut down for similar alleged violations since 2001.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
Document type
Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
Topic(s)
Governance & Rule of Law
Violence
Person(s) affected
Activists
Year
2015
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the UNGA (2015), A/70/266, para. 64.