UN sanctions
- Damilola Banjo
- • December 9, 2022
This week, the Taliban carried out their first execution, letting a man shoot the person who allegedly murdered his son. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Secretary-General, Security Council, Terrorism, This Week @UN, US Foreign Relations
- Damilola Banjo
- • October 24, 2022
After weeks of negotiations and delayed voting, the United Nations Security Council overwhelmingly agreed to sanction Jimmy Cherizier and other gang leaders accused of raping and terrorizing Haitian people. The sanctions were approved on Oct. 21 in a resolution…
- Categories: Caribbean, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council
- Anastasiia Carrier
- • May 9, 2022
The presence of the Russian state-linked Wagner Group mercenaries in the diamond-rich Central African Republic has been bloody. Now it seems that Russia has used its power in the United Nations Security Council to protect its exploits and geostrategic…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Security Council
- Sophie Huvé  and Rebecca Brubaker
- • July 13, 2021
Since 2008, the United Nations Security Council has been integrating part of the women, peace and security agenda into its sanctions regimes — albeit inconsistently and with mixed results. So far, this practice has mostly focused on protecting women…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Stéphanie Fillion  and Kacie Candela
- • April 20, 2020
During the last week of March, Hilal Elver, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, was one of three high-level UN representatives to call for an easing of some sanctions to help alleviate the impact of…
- Categories: Covid-19, Secretary-General, Security Council
- Enrico Carisch
- • March 8, 2018
Criticisms over a lack of fairness of United Nations sanctions and inconsistencies in their application are frequent and routine — and not without justification. For decades, human-rights experts have pointed to the paradox that unreliable practices, in the words…
- Categories: P5 Monitor, Peace and Security, Security Council
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 13, 2018
Debates over how to deal with issues like North Korea’s nuclear weapons or the reliability of Iran to adhere to its role in a multiparty nuclear deal have brought questions about the value, design and human effects of sanctions…
- Categories: BOOKS, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council
- Enrico Carisch  and Loraine Rickard-Martin
- • December 1, 2017
With only few of the current United Nations sanctions cases accomplishing their political objectives, it is not unreasonable to wonder why the system seems broken. As the 50th anniversary of the first use of this important political tool is duly…
- Categories: Libya, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 31, 2017
Striving to leave an indelible mark as president of the United Nations Security Council in August, Egypt proposed that an informal working group, focused comprehensively on sanctions regimes, should be set up to advise the Council. But one powerful…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Middle East, Security Council
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