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Oct 2021
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Episode 25: FATF's Unintended Consequenc...

THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE
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Around the world, misapplied AML/CFT measures facilitate the politically driven restriction of civic and political freedoms, threatening fundamental human rights. In the final episode of our series, Stephen Reimer looks at the future trajectory of abuse of FATF's standards, with guests Anietie Ewang of Human Rights Watch, leading law firm Peters & Peters' Michael O'Kane, Alyssa Yamamoto of the Mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights while Countering Terrorism, and Chapter Four Uganda's Nicholas Opiyo.

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