The Security Council's Targeted Sanctions Regimes: In Need of Better Protection of the Individual

Leiden Journal of International Law

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 797-807

  Van Den Herik, Larissa ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

effective remedy; Resolution 1267; Resolution 1373; Security Council review; targeted sanctions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009631735     PISSN: 09221565     EISSN: 14789698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0922156507004451     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. See, e.g. Report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, UN Doc. A/HRC/4/88 (2007), at para. 31. And, much earlier, I. Cameron, ‘UN Targeted Sanctions, Legal Safeguards and the European Convention on Human Rights’, (2003) 72 Nordic Journal of International Law 159.
2. J. Dugard, ‘Judicial Review of Sanctions’, in V. Gowlland-Debbas (ed.), United Nations Sanctions and International Law (2001), at 83.
3. See also J. Dugard, ‘Judicial Review in Public International Law’, in E. J. H. Schrage (ed.) Judicial Review (2002), at 35.
4. Dugard, ‘judicial Review of Sanctions’, at 83-4.
5. Iraq was not the only case in which comprehensive sanctions had a devastating impact on the population; see R. Geiss, ‘Humanitarian Safeguards in Economic Sanctions Regimes: A Call for Automatic Suspension Clauses, Periodic Monitoring, and Follow-up Assessment of Long-Term Effects’, (2005) 18 Harvard Human Rights Journal 167, at 167.
6. See also M. Reisman, ‘Assessing the Lawfulness of Nonmilitary Enforcement: The Case of Economic Sanctions’, (1995) 89 American Society of International Law Proceedings 350, at 351.
7. See, e.g. the Report of the Panel of Experts on Liberia, UN Doc. S/2002/470 (2002), at paras. 158-159 as referred to by I. Cameron, Targeted Sanctions and Legal Safeguards, Report for the Swedish Government (2002), at 7, n. 17 (available at http://www-hotel.uu.se/juri/arkiv/sanctions.pdf). These complaints concerned the Liberia Sanctions Committee established pursuant to Resolution 1343 (2001).
8. See, in more detail, P. Cramér, ‘Recent Swedish Experiences with Targeted UN Sanctions: Erosion of Trust in the Security Council’, in E. de Wet and A. Nollkaemper (eds.), Review of the Security Council by Member States (2003), at 85.
9. As cited by J. Dugard, ‘Judicial Review of Sanctions’, note 2, at 86.
10. J. Dugard, ‘Judicial Review of Sanctions’, note 2, at 86.
11. A. Bianchi, ‘Security Council's Anti-terror Resolutions and their Implementation by Member States’, (2006) 4 Journal of International Criminal Justice 1044, at 1066.