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SANCTION

IJC is seeking to improve the effectiveness and consistency of human rights sanctions by providing data-driven recommendations for high-priority sanctions targets to policymakers and stakeholders in the US, Canada, EU, UK, and Australia. The IJC’s work leverages data analysis techniques to identify gaps in sanctions lists across those targeted jurisdictions. 

The IJC team has cross-referenced sanctions lists to pinpoint individuals and entities sanctioned in some, but not all, of those jurisdictions. IJC’s project team then correlated those sanctions discrepancy lists with databases of gross human rights violations to prioritize the most egregious abusers. ⁠Through this methodology, the IJC has created specific, actionable recommendations for each jurisdiction to impose sanctions on the most egregious violators who have evaded accountability.  ⁠For example, the IJC recently compiled and distributed a list of 10 major human rights transgressors that were sanctioned elsewhere but not in the US.


⁠In the future, the IJC intends to enhance these findings by incorporating data from recently leaked regime judiciary databases to identify even more human rights abusers evading accountability.


Expected achievement:
⁠By providing policymakers with data-driven targets for sanctions, the IJC aims to make sanctions regimes more consistent and effective in punishing and deterring human rights violators.

 

Toomaj Sanctions: 


The IJC, in collaboration with other human rights advocates, worked to sanction 31 individuals from the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary courts. The team held a press conference in the Canadian Parliament, lobbied with major parties, and planned a unanimous consent motion that passed in the House. The following day, the IJC engaged in lobbying to encourage Canada’s Senate to introduce a mirror motion. 

Achievement:
Successfully passed the motion unanimously in the Senate and Parliament Hill on June 17, 2024.
Established a strong network with both the Parliament and the Senate.
The IJC continues to pressure the government to act on the unanimous consent motions, sanctioning 31 individuals from the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Court.

 

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