Human Rights and International Law: Sanctions

(asked on 18th May 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the criteria for economic sanctions to be imposed on a nation that is found to have broken (1) international law, and (2) human rights law.


Answered by
 Portrait
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 2nd June 2021

There are no specific criteria which determine when the Government will or will not impose sanctions, but an appropriate Minister may make sanctions regulations for the purposes set out in Section 1 of the Sanctions and Anti- Money Laundering Act. We seek to achieve what have come to be known as 'smart' sanctions: sanctions that are carefully targeted to achieve their goals, while minimising potentially negative wider impacts.

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