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United Nations Security Council Resolution 2206 on Targeted Sanctions in South Sudan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Laura Nyantung Beny
Laura Nyantung Beny*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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In December 2013, civil conflict erupted between the Government of the Republic of South Sudan and opposition forces due to political infighting among the country’s political and military elites. On March 3, 2015, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted Resolution 2206 pursuant to its powers under Article 41 of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations. Resolution 2206 provides for targeted sanctions against specific individuals and entities deemed “responsible for or complicit in, or [as] having engaged in, directly or indirectly, actions or policies that threaten the peace, security or stability of South Sudan.” The stated purpose of the targeted sanctions, which consist of a travel ban and asset freeze for designated individuals and entities, is to “support the search for an inclusive and sustainable peace in South Sudan.”

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International Legal Materials
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International Legal Materials , Volume 54 , Issue 5 , October 2015 , pp. 945 - 954
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2015

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* This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text available at the United Nations website (visited October 8, 2015), http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/RES/2206%20(2015).

1 S.C. Res. 2206 (Mar. 3, 2015).

2 Id. ¶ 6.

3 Id. ¶ 5.

4 See Sudan’s Killing Fields: Political Violence and Fragmentation (Laura, N. Beny&Sondra Hale eds., 2014)Google Scholar.

5 UN Welcomes South Sudan as 193rd Member State, United Nations (July 14, 2011)Google Scholar, http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39034#.VfoCyhHBzGc.

6 See Beny & Hale, supra note 4.

7 S.C. Res. 2206, supra note 1, pmbl.

8 Id. ¶ 9.

9 Id. ¶ 12.

10 Id. ¶ 6.

11 Id. ¶ 7.

12 U.N. Secretary-General, Report of the Secretary-General on the Work of the Organization, U.N. Doc. A/52/1 (Sep. 3, 1997).

13 Gary, C. Hufbauer & Barbara, Oegg, Targeted Sanctions: A Policy Alternative? , 32 Law & Pol’y Int’l Bus. 11, 12 (2000)Google Scholar.

14 See generally Edward, Thomas, South Sudan: A Slow Liberation Sudan Slow Liberation (2015)Google Scholar.

15 Hufbauer & Oegg, supra note 13.

16 Id.

17 See The Graduate Institute et al., Designing United Nations Targeted Sanctions (2012)Google Scholar, available at http://graduateinstitute.ch/files/live/sites/iheid/files/sites/internationalgovernance/shared/PSIG_images/Sanctions/Designing%20UN%20Targeted%20Sanctions.pdf (finding that targeted sanctions yield a change in targets’ behavior only 13% of the time and send a stigmatizing signal 43% of the time).

18 UN Imposes First Sanctions on Six South Sudan Commanders, Daily Nation (July 2, 2015)Google Scholar, http://www.nation.co.ke/news/africa/UN-sanctions-six-South-Sudan-commanders/-/1066/2772520/-/3qlj9nz/-/index.html.

19 South Sudan Lauds Diplomatic Efforts to Block UN Sanctions, Sudan tribune (Sept. 20, 2015)Google Scholar, http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article56456.