Denmark Orders Freeze of Secretariat Funding | NGO Monitor

On June 2, 2017, the Danish Foreign Minister halted distribution of Danish government funding to organizations via the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat (“Secretariat”), a joint funding mechanism of the Danish, Dutch, Swedish, and Swiss governments¹. The statement explained that “all payments of Danish money to organizations within the donor secretariat” are frozen pending a “thorough investigation of all the organizations.”