Sanctions

This latest set of sanctions is a promising development, particularly as the State Department signaled its intent to prioritize using the Global Magnitsky program to address forced…

Bolot Temirov on the personal cost of the country's repression of media and civil society, as democracy gives way to authoritarianism.

If the Pall Mall Process is to remain relevant, then France and the U.K. must become advocates for national and global regulation on spyware.

Congress has imposed significant constraints on the president's ability to unilaterally lift sanctions imposed on Russia for its aggression in Ukraine in increasingly specific…

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will soon consider an act that would impose sanctions on people and organizations to condemn the ICC.

The democratic world must side with pro-democracy, peace, and anti-corruption movements in Africa and act against corrupt networks.

Writes an American-Israeli citizen whose family was decimated in the Holocaust: "It is my family history and three decades spent advocating for human rights and the rule of…

The US and allies can build on the coordinated Magnitsky-like sanctions in his case to continue turning up the heat on repressive regimes.

Lifting sanctions against mining tycoon Dan Gertler for “extensive public corruption” in the Democratic Republic of Congo would fail the victims of his schemes and undermine…

Explore Just Security's coverage of the last three years of Taliban control in Afghanistan.

Unfocused efforts to break the logjam over human rights and diplomatic recognition raise questions about how to move forward.

Former State Department official critically analyzes State Department's decision to drop Netzah Yehuda unit from Leahy Law sanctions.