UN Security Council sanctions
- 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
- • November 5, 2017
If an investment, shareholding, credit or other financing tool benefits an enterprise or an individual that is  somehow violating a United Nations arms embargo or is committing atrocities, terrorist acts or proliferating weapons of mass destructions, is such an…
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • February 26, 2013
Gold is now one of the most problematic conflict minerals in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and United Nations Security Council sanctions on the illegal mining of natural resources, including gold, have done little to prevent smugglers from…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
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