The Hague (EFE).- The European Union (EU) agreed on Tuesday a package of sanctions against nine people and three entities that it considers “responsible” for sexual violence and large-scale violations of women’s rights, in the first restrictive measures of this type within the regime of sanctions against human rights.
The EU decision comes on the eve of the celebration of International Women’s Day and is due to an initiative promoted, among others, by Wopke Hoekstra, Dutch Foreign Minister, who announced today in a statement that this package seeks to “give a new step: demonstrate that such human rights violations have consequences”.
Hoekstra added that these measures “are an important means of upholding universal values and enforcing change at the international level,” pointing to Ukraine, Russia, South Sudan, Iran, Myanmar, Syria and Afghanistan as contexts of violation of rights of the woman.
“In conflicts like those in Ukraine and South Sudan, sexual violence occurs regularly, especially against women and girls.
Women’s rights are severely violated during protests, imprisonment and oppression, such as in Iran, Myanmar, Syria or Afghanistan. Perpetrators of sexual violence often go unpunished,” she lamented.
The minister noted that these sanctions also “send a clear signal to those guilty of sexual violence that they cannot get away with it” and warned that “these appalling and degrading actions have consequences.”
economic isolation
Hoekstra did not specify the names of individuals and organizations affected by these first sanctions adopted today by the EU, but warned that these measures will not stop now and that the people and entities that the EU considers responsible for sexual violence will be included in the list of sanctions, their assets in the community area will be frozen, they will not be able to travel to the EU and European companies will not be able to “provide them with a service”.
“The sanctions package is a new way to increase attention on sexual violence and send a global signal that such actions are unacceptable,” he added.
Diplomatic sources told EFE that the identity of those affected by the sanctions will be made public in a few hours.
This is the first time that the EU applies restrictive measures to those responsible for sexual violence against women, in a new section that the Twenty-seven adopted today within the regime of sanctions against human rights.
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