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Security Council Targeted Sanctions, Due Process And The 1267 Ombudsperson, Grant L. Willis
Security Council Targeted Sanctions, Due Process And The 1267 Ombudsperson, Grant L. Willis
Grant L Willis
Since its inception the Security Council’s 1267 sanctions regime has come under fire from UN member states, listed individuals and entities, domestic and international courts and tribunals, human rights NGO’s and even other organs of the UN, that all claim the 1267 sanctions regime does not secure targeted individuals’ procedural due process rights, particularly the right to an effective remedy. For instance, in June 2009 a Canadian Federal Court Judge noted that the 1267 sanctions regime creates a situation for the listed individual that is “not unlike that of Josef K. in Kafka’s The Trial, who awakens one morning, and …