By Maya Lester KC & Michael O’Kane

Covid-19: UN Human Rights Commissioner calls for easing of sanctions

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has called for the urgent re-evaluation of sectoral sanctions in countries dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, alongside broad and practical humanitarian exemptions to sanctions measures, including authorisation for medical equipment and supplies. She said that sanctions may impede medical efforts in Cuba, N Korea, Venezuela, Zimbabwe and Iran, which have vulnerable …

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Michael is Senior Partner at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. He has acted in many of the most high profile and sensitive business crime cases of the last 25 years, at Peters &...

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