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Playing Fair With Sanctions: Is There a Method to the Madness?

March 19, 2018March 8, 2018 by Enrico Carisch

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 of one expert, render “the UN sanctions system noncompliant with the UN’s human rights standards.” This … Read more

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In a World of Evolving UN Sanctions, an Emphasis on the Humanitarian Effects

January 13, 2018January 13, 2018 by Barbara Crossette

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 to the fore at the United Nations and in national capitals. Are sanctions a tool of … Read more

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How Companies and Their Investors Pay Lip Service to UN Sanctions

November 24, 2017November 5, 2017 by Enrico Carisch

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 involvement contravening sanctions regimes and therefore breaking international law? Checking past and current UN Security Council … Read more

Illegal Gold Mining Runs Rampant in Eastern Congo

December 8, 2014February 26, 2013 by Lorraine Boissoneault

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 profiting, says a new report from a German foundation. The foundation, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, is a … Read more

Playing Fair With Sanctions: Is There a Method to the Madness?

In a World of Evolving UN Sanctions, an Emphasis on the Humanitarian Effects

How Companies and Their Investors Pay Lip Service to UN Sanctions

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