Financial and economic sanctions ‐ from a perspective of international law and human rights

Journal of Financial Crime

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 217-220

  Kruse, Anders ^a  

^a EU Legal Secretariat Ministry for Foreign Affairs   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Financial services; Human rights; International law; Regulation; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992948071     PISSN: 13590790     EISSN: 17587239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13590790510624837     Document Type: Review

References (6)

1. Most of what is said in this paper is valid for both the fight against terrorism and the fight against organised crime, for terrorists and for other criminals, but for the sake of simplicity, only terrorism and terrorists will be used henceforth.
2. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan put it this way in his address marking the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 8th December, 1998:. A society that violates the rights of its citizens cannot expect them to cultivate their talents at home, or to contribute to their nation's prosperity, or to develop their own communities. Without the rule of law, without the protection of the individual, and without an end to corrupt practices, societies cannot sustain their development in the long run.'
3. Since some Swedish citizens and entities have been targets of international sanctions arising from the Security Council's Resolution 1267, the author has been much involved - as Legal Adviser to the Swedish Government - in the legal and political intricacies arising from those cases.
4. An updated and consolidated version ofthe list was published 6 July 2004 on the UN website www.un.org/Docs/sc/ committees/1267/1267ListEng. It contains 317 individuals and 112 organisations belonging to or associated with the Taliban or al-Qaeda.
5. Rasul etal. v Bush, President of the United States etal., US, 28th June, 2004.
6. The term ‘international judiciary’ is not used here as a technical term for judges of any specific international courts. The term is used to describe the situation where judges - be theyjudges in national, regional or international courts - adjudicate in cases with a transborder or international dimension which requires special attention from the points of view of international law; see also Slaughter, A. (2004) A New World Order, Princeton University Press, especially Ch. 2.