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US President Jimmy Carter imposed an arms embargo on the military government of Argentina in 1977 in response to human rights abuses. [2]An arms embargo was put in place, along with other economic sanctions by the European Economic Community (EEC), within a week of the 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina, two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic. [3]
In response to mounting international pressure on Israel's actions in Gaza, more than 200 delegates from 12 countries have called for an arms embargo on Israel. In their letter, the politicians stated that "an arms embargo has moved beyond a moral necessity to become a legal requirement". [7] "Providing arms to Israel despite the mounting ...
United Nations – The United Nations reported that Turkey is one of the countries that systematically violated the Libyan arms embargo. [102] In addition, in March 2021, in a new report UN accused some countries including Turkey of extensive and blatant violations. The report included photos, diagrams and maps in order to support the accusations.
Pedersen and U.N. aid chief Tom Fletcher briefed the 15-member council from Damascus, where they met with the country's new leaders after President Bashar al-Assad was ousted by insurgent forces ...
A decade-long U.N. arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets expired Sunday as planned under its nuclear deal with world powers, despite ...
The ICC has 12 ongoing investigations, has issued at least 56 arrest warrants and taken 21 suspects into custody, with 32 cases heard before the court and 27 defendants still at large.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1907, adopted on December 23, 2009, imposed an arms embargo on Eritrea, travel bans on its leaders, and froze the assets of some of the country's political and military officials after accusing the Eritrean government of aiding Al-Shabaab in Somalia and reportedly refusing to withdraw troops from its disputed border with Djibouti, following a conflict ...
A United Nations expert told the global body's Human Rights Council on Tuesday that she believed that Israel's military campaign in Gaza since Oct. 7 amounted to genocide and called on countries ...