Africa Business Radio

The Dutch government says it will no longer fund one of the six major civil society and human rights organisations in Palestine which Israel banned as terrorist groups in October 2021. The Ramallah-based Union of Agricultural Work Committees says this is the first time a government ends its funding for Palestinian civil society based on political conditionality. The group says it would consider legal steps to challenge the Dutch government’s harmful and unfair decision which, it warned, was likely to resonate far beyond our organisation.