European Union adopts its first human rights sanctions regime | Blogs | Linklaters

The EU has adopted its first global human rights sanctions regime, which allows the EU to impose travel bans and financial sanctions on targeted individuals, entities and bodies (including state and non-state actors) responsible for, involved in or associated with serious human rights violations and abuses worldwide, irrespective of where they occurred. This “horizontal” regime will apply in addition to the existing EU geographical sanctions regimes, which have listed more than 200 individuals and entities for human rights violations.