Sanctions and Individual Rights
Coercive Diplomacy in Global Governance: The Role of Sanctions, Natalino Ronzitti (ed.), Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2016.
Posted: 27 May 2020
Date Written: 2016
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the legal relationship between individual rights and targeted sanctions adopted by the un Security Council, particularly in the field of counterter- rorism. It addresses the question of the individual rights entitlements of the targeted individual or entity within the applicable international legal framework, arguing that not only it is an important question as such, but that it raises systemic issues, like those concerning the legal limits to the powers of the Security Council in enacting targeted sanctions under Chapter vii; and of the relationship, from a legal point of view, between the deciding authority – the Security Council – and the implementing authority – States or regional organizations. It criticizes the thesis that targeted sanc- tions decided by the Security Council under Chapter vii displace member States human rights obligations beyond what human rights law itself prescribes.
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