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News, Events, Publications about Sanctions

  • Panel Discussions 01-28-2020

    Ensuring that Sanctions Do Not Impede Humanitarian Action

    Sanctions can end up hindering humanitarian assistance and the provision of life-saving medical care in armed conflict, and forestalling that outcome was the subject of a January 28th policy forum at IPI, co-hosted with the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations.The discussion centered on a new IPI report, Making Sanctions Smarter: Safeguarding Humanitarian […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs, Sanctions
  • Policy Papers 12-19-2019by Alice Debarre

    Making Sanctions Smarter: Safeguarding Humanitarian Action

    In recent decades, sanctions have increasingly been used as a foreign policy tool. The UN Security Council has imposed a total of fourteen sanctions regimes alongside those imposed autonomously by the EU, the US, and other countries. Despite efforts to institute more targeted sanctions regimes, these regimes continue to impede or prevent the provision of […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs, Sanctions, UN Security Council
  • Speaker Events 12-15-2014

    Fathi: Iran and the Struggle Between Hardliners and Reformers

    Discussing her new book The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran at IPI on December 15th, author Nazila Fathi said that 35 years after the revolution, Iran is divided between hardliners and a large moderate middle class, but admitted that it is still unclear which of the two sides will […]

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    Disarmament, Governance, Mediation, Sanctions, State-Society Relations, Women‚ Peace and Security
  • Policy Papers 04-12-2014by Kristen E. Boon

    Terminating Security Council Sanctions

    This report assesses the United Nations Security Council’s current approach to drawing down sanctions in intrastate war situations. After examining broader questions surrounding the UN’s authority to impose sanctions and the corresponding limits on these powers, the report assesses criteria used by the Council to terminate sanctions.

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    Sanctions, UN Security Council
  • Issue Briefs 04-02-2014by Astrid Forberg Ryan

    Sanctions Implementation and the UN Security Council: The Case for Greater Transparency

    It is the responsibility of UN member states to implement sanctions adopted by the Security Council, but the council plays an important role in facilitating and promoting effective implementation.

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    Sanctions, UN Security Council
  • Policy Papers 04-01-2014by Enrico Carisch and Loraine Rickard-Martin

    United Nations Sanctions on Iran and North Korea: An Implementation Manual

    As sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council have become increasingly sophisticated and targeted, they have also become more and more difficult to implement effectively. Currently there are fourteen active UN sanctions regimes. Among them are the sanctions regimes on Iran and North Korea.

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    Sanctions
  • Policy Papers 03-08-2013by 
Eduardo Zachary Albrecht

    North Korea & the UN Security Council: Action, Reaction, Trust, and Mistrust

    North Korea’s underground nuclear test on February 12, 2013, was the latest in a series of provocations that form part of a slow-motion proliferation strategy. As the UN Security Council responded with sanctions in early March, the world body again contributed to a pattern of action, reaction, trust, and mistrust with the recalcitrant state.

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    Disarmament, Sanctions
  • Speaker Events 06-26-2012

    Mousavian: Do Not Deny Iran’s Legitimate Rights

    “If you are going to deny Iran its legitimate rights to enjoy peaceful technologies—chemical, biological, and nuclear—then what would be the reason for Iran to stay a member of chemical, biological, and nuclear conventions? Only commitments, no rights?” asked Seyed Hossein Mousavian, at a Beyond the Headlines event at IPI on June 26, 2012. Mr. […]

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    Disarmament, Sanctions
  • Speaker Events 01-25-2011

    Lang: “We Have to Attack Piracy at the Head”

    Jack Lang, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Legal Issues Related to Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, said at an IPI event on January 25, 2011, “We have to attack piracy at the head.”Mr. Lang referred several times to piracy “masterminds,” and asserted, “Each time that we know a mastermind, we have to apply […]

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    Sanctions, Transnational Organized Crime
  • IPI in the News 07-07-2008Annie Schmidt, Pamela Corn

    IPI Vice President and Director of External Relations Warren Hoge on vetoed sanctions againt Mugabe [The Economist]

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