(NGO Monitor) The Swiss Government confirmed Monday that the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat - a joint funding mechanism of the governments of Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, and The Netherlands - is suspending funding to the Women's Affairs Technical Committee (WATC). The decision follows WATC's role in inaugurating a women's center in the West Bank named after Dalal Mughrabi, a terrorist who murdered 38 Israeli civilians in a 1978 terror attack. The Swiss weekly SonntagsZeitung noted that WATC received $530,000 in core funding from 2014-2016.
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