UN Working Group on Sanctions
UN page of the Working Group on General Issues on Sanctions
Informal Working Group of the Security Council on General Issues of Sanctions: Chairman's Proposed Outcome (September 26, 2002)
The Security Council's informal Working Group on sanctions offers broad recommendations to ensure better cooperation within and between the UN and international, regional and local organizations on creating and implementing sanctions. It stresses that sanctions should be a last resort for the Security Council, and that although member states must enforce sanctions, the UN and other organizations must offer adequate support.
Draft Report of the Working Group (February 21, 2001)
An unofficial version of the report (February 21, 2001) currently being debated by the UN Working Group on Sanctions. [On the CASI (Campaign Against Sanctions in Iraq) website.]
Establishment of the Working Group on Sanctions (April 17, 2000)
In presidential note (S/2000/319), the UN Security Council decided to establish a temporary and informal working group of the Council to debate recommendations on improving the effectiveness of UN sanctions. The verbatim record of the Council meeting on General Issues Relating to Sanctions is S/PV.4128 (2000).
Issue Paper Concerning Sanctions Imposed by the Security Council (October 30, 1998)
The Chairmen of the Sanctions Committees circulated this "non-paper" in the Council as the forerunnner to the establishment of the UN Working Group on General Issues on Sanctions.
UN Sanctions Committees
Work of the Sanctions Committees (January 29, 1999)
Notes of the president of the Security Council, Ambassador Celso Amorim (S/1999/92), on practical proposals to improve the work of the sanctions committees.
A UN Overview of the Sanctions Committees
Includes links to UN resolutions, reports and press releases related to the Sanctions Committees.
Use of Sanctions Under Chapter VII of the UN Charter
A complete list of countries upon which UN sanctions have been imposed (past and present), and the relevant Security Council resolutions. From the Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
List of UN Sanctions Committees
The chairs and vice-chairs of the Security Council committees governing UN sanctions regimes.
Table Showing Meetings of Sanctions Committees
Table based on UN data, shows relative activity of different committees.
Key Documents
Sanctions Assessment Handbook (October 2004)
This handbook by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and member agencies of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee provides a sanctions assessment methodology to help humanitarian practitioners and policymakers evaluate humanitarian consequences of sanctions.
General Assembly Resolution on the Report of the Sixth Committee (January 30, 2001)
Implementation of the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations related to the assistance to third states affected by the application of sanctions.
The Adverse Consequences of Economic Sanctions on the Enjoyment of Human Rights (June 21, 2000)
Otherwise known as the Bossuyt Report, this working paper following from the 1997 resolution of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, notes the concerns of the effects of economic sanctions. It hopes to provide a framework for incorporating the human rights and humanitarian law dimension of sanctions into international dialogue.
Issue Paper Concerning Sanctions Imposed by the Security Council (October 30, 1998)
The Chairmen of the Sanctions Committees circulated this "non-paper" in the Council as the forerunnner to the establishment of the UN Working Group on General Issues on Sanctions.
Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the UN and on Strengthening its Role (August 22, 1995)
Report of the Secretary General (A/50/361) on implementation of the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations related to assistance to third states affected by the application of sanctions under Chapter VII of the Charter. Includes proposals and suggestions aimed at minimizing the effect of sanctions on third states and on the provision of assistance to third states affected by sanctions.
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