Summary

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, Alena Douhan, assesses practices and challenges for the exercise of access to justice by various actors, including States, individuals and companies, directly designated under primary and secondary sanctions regimes, those facing criminal and civil charges for circumvention for sanctions regimes and those not designated; impediments in the work of legal professionals, including lawyers and judges; and the functioning of the legal system of States under sanctions in the face of unilateral sanctions, means of their enforcement and overcompliance.