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More Humane and Effective Sanctions Management: Enhancing the Capacity of
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TITLE: Toward More Humane and Effective Sanctions Management: Enhancing
the Capacity of the United Nations System (Occasional
Paper 31)
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ABSTRACT |
| Reflecting widespread and growing concern, the UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs was requested by the UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee to prepare a report reviewing recent UN experience with sanctions, identifying ways of assessing their humanitarian impacts, and proposing a checklist to be used in monitoring such impacts in future sanctions. DHA in turn requested the H&W Project, in collaboration with the Fourth Freedom Forum and the Joan B. Kroc Institute of the University of Notre Dame, to prepare such a report, which was submitted to the UN in 1997. This Occasional Paper reprints that report in its entirety and adds a Prologue providing political commentary on sanctions not contained in the DHA study itself. | |
| Based on 125 interviews with a wide range of UN, NGO, and other officials, the report identifies difficulties experienced by humanitarian agencies in carrying out their tasks in situations where sanctions have been applied. It proposes a set of five impact indicators to be monitored over time in the areas of public health, economics, population displacement, governance and civil society, and humanitarian activities. With respect to humanitarian exemptions, the "hinge" between the pursuit of political objectives and the rights of civilians in targeted countries, the report identifies three possible approaches and examines the pros and cons of each: institution-specific exemptions, item-specific exemptions, and country-specific exemptions. | |
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The study has circulated widely and been discussed by the IASC. It was the subject of a briefing for member governments of the UN Security Council. A book-length review of the experience in Iraq, Haiti, South Africa, and Former Yugoslavia was published by the researchers as Political Gain and Civilian Pain: The Humanitarian Impacts of Economic Sanctions (Rowman and Littlefield: 1997). The H&W Project's work on sanctions was reviewed in the International Review of Red Cross, reprinted in Section 8, Selected Commentary on Project Publications.
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KEYWORDS |
| humanitarian action, enforcement, economic sanctions, humanitarian exemptions, human rights, sovereignty, warfare, regional organizations, local institutions, civil society; South Africa, Burundi, Haiti, Former Yugoslavia, Iraq; UN, UN Security Council, DHA, IASC, UNICEF, WFP, UNDP, FAO, UNHCR DPA, NGOs, ICRC | |
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