Sanctions regimes promoting discrimination
Failure to ensure the absence of discrimination in enjoyment of rights during a sanction regime

Type of entry: Potential Violation

While sanctions will inevitably diminish the capacity of the affected State to fund or support some of the necessary measures, the State remains under an obligation to ensure the absence of discrimination in relation to the enjoyment of these rights... ESCR/GC 8(3).

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Related Terms:

Other Related Terms (keywords):

  • Boycotts
  • Divestiture
  • Embargoes

See ESC right:

Food, adequate

Relevant ICESCR Articles:

11(2)(b): The States Parties to the present Covenant, recognizing the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger, shall take, individually and through international co-operation, the measures, including specific programmes, which are needed:

    (b) Taking into account the problems of both food-importing and food-exporting countries, to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need.

Related Documents:

General Comment No. 03: The Nature of States Parties Obligations

Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition


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