Tools of Trade: U.S. Sanctions Regimes and Human Rights Accountability Strategies
Download the one-pager here. Enough’s June 2018 report, “Tools of Trade: U.S. Sanctions Regimes and Human Rights Accountability Strategies,” co-authored with the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable, underscores how economic sanctions provide financial and diplomatic pressure to further aid U.S. foreign policy goals and national security interests. Sanctions aimed at targeting individual actors, economic sectors, or an entire foreign government have in recent years become an attractive alternative to military action. Sanctions, therefore, are an increasingly important tool for policymakers and human rights advocates to understand, particularly as newer approaches are utilized, which include innovative targeting strategies and new robust efforts ...
“Tools of Trade”: Resource Paper Explains U.S. Sanctions Regimes and New Human Rights Accountability Strategies
New resource paper empowers human rights practitioners and advocates to stay engaged through lifecycle of powerful but often underutilized sanctions regimes ...
Just Published: Understanding Sanctions and Human Rights
In this new paper, the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable and Enough Project lay out the essential elements of how sanctions programs are created, implemented, and enforced ...
Tools of Trade
Tools of Trade: U.S. Sanctions Regimes & Human Rights Accountability Strategies By: International Corporate Accountability Roundtable and the Enough Project Read the full report here. Economic sanctions provide financial and diplomatic pressure to further U.S. foreign policy goals and national security interests. By targeting individual actors, economic sectors, or an entire foreign government, sanctions are an attractive alternative to softer diplomatic options and drastic military action for the U.S. government to act upon its positions before the international community. Because sanctions are a malleable tool that can be tailored to specific situations, their use has risen to address a wide ...
The Daily Beast Op-ed: Congo’s Looting and Killing Machine Moves Into High Gear
This op-ed originally appeared in The Daily Beast and was written by Enough Project Founding Director John Prendergast ...
Delaying Consequences Emboldens Peace Spoilers in South Sudan
On Thursday May 31st, the UN Security Council voted to renew the sanctions regime on South Sudan for 45 days but refrained from sanctioning six high-level political and military leaders with command and control responsibilities pending a review of compliance to the Cessation of Hostilities (CoH) agreement signed at the recently concluded High Level Revitalization Forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ...
Applications Open for Next School Year! Enough Project’s Student Upstander Program
The Enough Project’s Student Upstander program is designed to develop a network of committed student activists on campuses across the country to draw on the power of student leadership to support peace in East and Central Africa. Apply for the 2018-2019 academic year now ...
John Prendergast Provides an Update on South Sudan on NPR Weekend Edition
Host Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to John Prendergast about U.S. humanitarian aid to South Sudan and the current situation for people caught in the brutal war ...
Testimony of John Prendergast: Protecting Civil Society, Faith-Based Actors, and Political Speech in Sub-Saharan Africa
Testimony of John Prendergast, Enough Project Founding Director and Co-Found of The Sentry, given on May 9th, 2018 before the U.S. Congress’ House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on “Protecting Civil Society, Faith-Based Actors, and Political Speech in Sub-Saharan Africa.” ...
John Prendergast Testifies to Congress on Sub-Saharan Africa, Urges Network Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Measures to Address War Linked to Grand Corruption
Today, John Prendergast, Co-Founder of The Sentry and Founding Director of the Enough Project, testified before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, in a hearing on “Protecting Civil Society, Faith-Based Actors, and Political Speech in Sub-Saharan Africa.” ...
