In October 2022, the UN Security Council established a Haiti sanctions regime by unanimously adopting resolution 2653 (2022). This was later adopted by the EU and EU.
Previous UN sanctions on Haiti were lifted by UN Security Council Resolution 944 and UN Security Council Resolution 948.
Yesterday, Canada designated 3 Haitian businessmen, Marc Antoine Acra, Carl Braun and Jean Marie Vorbe, for “fuelling the violence and instability in Haiti through corruption and other criminal acts and by enabling the illegal activities of armed gangs that terrorize the population and threaten peace and security in Haiti” (press release, amendment).
The candidate countries North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, Ukraine, Moldova and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the potential candidate country Georgia, and the EFTA countries Iceland and Liechtenstein have aligned themselves with the EU’s new Haiti sanctions framework (press release, previous post). The candidate countries North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, Moldova and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the EFTA countries Iceland, Liechtenstein and …
Last week, the EU set up an autonomous Haiti sanctions regime, allowing the EU to impose sanctions on individuals and entities responsible for threatening the peace, security or stability of Haiti, or for undermining democracy or the rule of law in Haiti (press release, Council Regulation (EU) 2023/1569, Council Decision (CFSP) 2023/1574). The framework complements the sanctions imposed by the …
The UK Export Control Joint Unit has amended the Export Control Order 2008 and the retained Council Regulation (EC) number 428/2009 (Dual-use Regulation) (notice, Export Control (Amendment) Regulations 2023) with the changes coming into force on 13 July: moving Haiti from Part 4 to Part 3 of Schedule 4 of the 2008 Order, which extends transit control and the requirement of a licence …
Canada has added 7 individuals to its Iran sanctions list for human rights violations in different branches of Iran’s Revolutionary Courts (notice): Morteza Barati; Hadi Mansouri; Musa Asif Al Hosseini; Seyed Mahmoud Sadati; Mehrdad Tahamtan; Mohammad Moghiseh; and Heidar Asiyabi. Canada has listed 6 Haitian individuals for significant acts of corruption and human rights violations (notice, notice): Gracia Delva and …
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