SHAFAQNA- Unilateral sanctions and excessive compliance endanger the health and well-being of people around the world, the United Nations’ independent human rights expert warned on Friday.
“As governments increasingly use unilateral sanctions to achieve foreign policy goals, it has become common for companies, including banks and financial institutions, to excessively comply,” said Alena Dukhan, the UN’s Human Rights Council-appointed Special Rapporteur on Unilateral Enforcement Actions. UN News reported.
Ms. Douhan said some of the individually imposed sanctions had a widespread adverse impact on people’s health care rights. “Health systems around the world are vulnerable to the imposition of unilateral sanctions and increasing cases of over-compliance and over-risk minimization,” she said. In her report to the 54th session of the Human Rights Council, Ms. Douhan highlighted the negative consequences of excessive compliance with unilateral sanctions by companies around the world. She pointed out that sanctions could lead to serious problems in the procurement and delivery of medicines, medical equipment and other humanitarian goods that are not subject to restrictions.