Unilateral Coercive Measures and Overcompliance
The increasing use of UCMs, particularly secondary sanctions, has given rise to the phenomenon of overcompliance, which has become a significant concern in international law.
Do the new US sanctions mark Russia’s final divorce with the dollar?
What we see is yet another manifestation of the strange incongruity in Washington’s approach. It is ostensibly in America’s interest to stem the tide of dedollarization, but instead it is degrading the greenback and pushing it even further out of the trade of a major global power.
On Unilateral Coercive Measures: A Conversation with Alena Douhan
The UN Special Rapporteur talks about the devastating impact of economic sanctions on countries and people. By Cira Pascual Marquina, February 9, 2024, Original post 9in two parts) here: https://venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/on-unilateral-coercive-measures-part-i-a-conversation-with-alena-douhan/ Dr. Alena Douhan is a professor of International […]
How Biden is starving Cuba
by William LeoGrande, original post here: https://www.wola.org/2021/05/biden-inaction-aggravating-cuba-food-crisis/ If President Biden wants to support human rights in Cuba and empower the Cuban people, he can start by alleviating the food crisis by ending Trump’s prohibition on remittances and restoring […]
UNICEF: Sanctions and their impact on children
UNICEF report, Feb 2022, special attention to Syria, Iran, Venezuela and North Korea (DPRK). Full PDF below, original post here: https://www.unicef.org/globalinsight/media/2531/file/%20UNICEF-Global-Insight-Sanctions-and-Children-2022.pdf
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, by Alena Douhan
Report of 4 October 2021, original UN post in English here: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G21/269/56/PDF/G2126956.pdf .