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On December 7, 2020, the Council of the European Union adopted two legal instruments, Council Decision (CFSP) 2020/1999 and Council Regulation (EU) 2020/1998, which together make up the new EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime (EUGHRSR). Similar to the U.S. "Global Magnitsky Act," and in contrast with the EU's existing country-specific sanctions regimes, the EUGHRSR seeks to address human rights abuses worldwide, by providing for the imposition of travel bans as well as financial sanctions on individual human rights offenders—state and non-state alike. The list of designated (natural and legal) persons will be reviewed on a periodic basis.

Origins and Description of Multilateral Development Banks' Sanctions Regimes -- Judicial Review Standards -- Accountability of International Organisations -- What Legal Principles Should Form the basis of MDBs' Sanctions Regimes? -- Due Process Standards in Multilateral Development Banks' Sanctions Regimes -- Treatment of Corporate Groups under Multilateral Development Banks' Sanctions Regimes -- Conclusion and Way Forward

Russia's veto of a UN resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Panel of Experts (PoE), which monitors UN member states' enforcement of the UN sanctions regime on North Korea, will effectively end the mandate for the PoE, which expires at the end of April 2024.

This thesis asks a simple question: what is the state of Canada's sanctions practice since 1990? In a post-Cold War environment, sanctions have become one of the most commonly applied tools of statecraft. Sanctions are commonly applied to address all manner of crises be they interstate aggression, intrastate humanitarian crises, civil wars, illegal seizures of power, arms proliferation, and international terrorism. There has been no sustained analysis of Canada's use of sanctions since Kim Richard Nossal's book Rain Dancing, which only investigated Canada's application of sanctions in comparison to Australia's until 1990. Therefore, there is a significant gap in the general sanctions literature and, more worrisome, Canada's foreign policy literature. This thesis conducts an investigation into Canada's use of sanctions since 1990 to establish when, why and with whom Canada has applied economic sanctions. ; October 2015

The initiative for a European Union (EU) human rights sanctions regime that targets individual human rights offenders builds upon an interesting trend set by the United States' Magnitsky Act. It has the potential to contribute to the development of international law and allow states and the EU to take on a more progressive attitude in relation to gross human rights violations committed worldwide. As an EU-wide initiative, it also has the opportunity to break with the muddled past and set a positive example. To do so, there are several important factors to consider related to the conceptual aim of the regime, its demarcation and potential effectiveness in practice.