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UK Expands Human Rights Sanctions Regime

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par Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband making a statement on Israel-Palestine in the House of Commons, London, United Kingdom, September 8, 2026. © 2026 Press Association via AP Photo The UK has significantly expanded its Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime, allowing the government, for the first time, to impose targeted sanctions on individuals and entities involved in war crimes. The new powers were approved by parliament yesterday.The previous framework, adopted in 2020, did not allow for such sanctions, providing, instead, for targeted sanctions only for certain serious…

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