On May 21, NGO Monitor sent an open letter to Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen in response to comments he made during his trip to Israel the previous week. NGO Monitor sought clarification on future Danish funding through the Human Rights and International Law Secretariat (Secretariat) to NGOs that incite to violence, justify terror and/or have alleged ties to terror organizations.

Following the ensuing correspondence (May 21-June 1), the Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs announced that it was freezing all funds to the Secretariat until it conducted a thorough review into grantees’ activities, and had already demanded a repay from one grantee, the Women’s Affairs Technical Committee (WATC).

On June 1, NGO Monitor sent letters to the Foreign Ministers of the remaining Secretariat donor countries – Switzerland, Sweden, and the Netherlands.


NGO Monitor Open Letter to the Danish Foreign Minister, May 21, 2017

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Danish Response, May 29, 2017

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NGO Monitor Response, June 1, 2017

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