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Links and Resources on Sanctions


 

Angola Peace Monitor

Magazine published by Action for Southern Africa.

Bonn-Berlin Process

Bonn International Center for Conversion in cooperation with Auswärtiges Amt (German Foreign Office) and the UN Secretariat, hosted two seminars in November 1999 and December 2000 on "smart-sanctions". Looking at arms embargoes and travel sanctions in a follow-up to the Interlaken process.

Fourth Freedom Forum

Fourth Freedom Forum in Indiana and Washington D.C., promotes the use of economic and political incentives and "smart" sanctions, such as targeted financial sanctions and arms embargoes, as a means to prevent war and nuclear proliferation.

Institute for International Economics

Provides a few papers on targeted and economic sanctions from a US conservative perspective. Also contains a section on case studies - mainly on unilateral US sanctions.

International Action Center

Releases and reports from US based Iraq Sanctions Challenge.

Iraq Action Coalition

Information and resources and analysis of the Iraq sanctions regime.

Middle East Research and Information Project

Comprehensive web site with several articles on sanctions, covering sanctions against Iraq in particular.

New Zealand Customs Service

A succinct summary of import and export restrictions related to UN sanctions. March 1999 paper from ODI on the sanctions debate (pdf file).

Peace Action Education Fund

The 1998 Peace Action National Congress adopted a strategy proposal called "Abolition of Comprehensive Economic Sanctions". Their pages have comprehensive sections on Iraq and US sanctions. Covers UN and uni-lateral sanctions. Includes a listing of organisations working on sanctions.

UN Working Group on General Issues and Sanctions

Launched in 2001, UN site with links to UN documentation (including resolution, letters and reports) on sanctions and other major initiatives.

United Nations Office of the Iraq Programme

UN department overseeing implementation of the Iraq oil-for-food programme. Provides full text of the Secretary General's reports; Security Council resolutions and weekly updates on the working of the oil-for-food programme.

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

OCHA's page on the Humanitarian Impact of Sanctions provides a summary of UN concerns about the negative impacts of sanctions as well as links to resources and key UN documents.

United States Mission to the UN

The Whitehouse perspective on sanctions.

United States Treasury: Office of Foreign Assets Control

US sanctions regimes and policies on different countries.

Voices in the Wilderness

A UK/US NGO group campaigning to end the sanctions against the people of Iraq.

 

 

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