Silencing the Special Procedures: Sanctions and the UN Human Rights System

About this episode

This episode discusses the use and abuse of sanctions by the Trump administration against UN experts speaking out on human rights in Gaza.

This year, the US government has issued sanctions on a number of experts from the UN to the International Criminal Court for speaking out about human rights in Gaza. President Donald Trump authorized sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan with the goal of stopping the ICC from undertaking its independent mandate. UN experts strongly condemned the move, calling it “an attack on global rule of law." In this episode of Entitled, we discuss how sanctions are being used and abused by the Trump administration, and how other UN members are responding to the sanctioning of their colleagues for speaking out.

Topics covered

• sanctions
• human rights
• UN
• International Criminal Court
• Trump administration
• global rule of law

Keywords

• sanctions
• human rights
• UN experts
• Trump administration
• International Criminal Court
• Karim Khan
• global rule of law

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: International Criminal Court, UN, US government

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