Policy overview: The Legitimacy and Effectiveness of the UK Sanctions Regime as a Human Rights Tool

This report provides an overview and analysis of the UK’s 2020 Human Rights Sanctions Regime, known as The Global Human Rights (GHR) regime, and evaluates its potential as an example of ‘smart sanctions’. Based on a review of existing empirical studies and legal analyses, the report examines the application of the GHR to date. Whilst the GHR is a recent development with few existing applications, this report identifies several possible limitations and outlines recommendations that would enable the regime to reach its full potential.  

This document reflects the outcome of a research project undertaken by a group of undergraduate and postgraduate students from the Institute of the Americas under the supervision of Dr Par Engstrom, Associate Professor in Human Rights at the Institute. The project's aim was to evaluate the effectiveness and limitations of the UK Global Human Rights sanctions regime. 

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