EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime: Council Decision

This Decision establishes an EU framework of targeted restrictive measures to address serious human rights violations and abuses worldwide. It covers genocide, crimes against humanity and serious human rights violations or abuses including torture, slavery, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests, trafficking in human beings, sexual violence, and violations of freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, freedom of opinion and expression, and freedom of religion or belief. Measures include restrictions on entry and asset freezes targeting those responsible and those who support them. The framework applies to State actors, actors exercising effective control over territory, and non-State actors. The Council of the European Union establishes and amends the list of persons subject to restrictive measures, acting by unanimity.