Joanna Darmanin
Head of Unit
Organisation
DG ECHO
EU institutions
Speaker session
Safeguarding principled humanitarian action from the unintended negative impact of sanctions and counter-terrorism
Studio
This session will build upon developments in 2022 by addressing the unintended negative impact of sanctions and counter-terrorism, and present potential solutions to tackle practical challenges.
The session will incorporate voices from the field with the express purpose of highlighting the challenges under which humanitarian operators deliver humanitarian aid under sanctions or CT regimes. In this context, the session will discuss risk management by analysing the impact of humanitarian exemptions/derogations on increasing or lowering the risk of circumvention of sanction regimes. Finally, the session will debate the legal framework by narrowing in on the question of whether humanitarian exemptions/derogations facilitate an efficient delivery of humanitarian assistance and mitigate any potential unintended negative impact of sanctions regimes. Specifically, the session seeks to evaluate whether the harmonization of exceptions in sanctions regimes and their language facilitates the efficient delivery of humanitarian aid.
Joanne Smyth
Deputy Director
Biography
Joanne Smyth is the Sanctions Co-ordinator for the Department of Foreign Affairs in Ireland, responsible for monitoring and contributing to Ireland’s policy on EU and UN Sanctions. She served on the Department’s UN Task Team during Ireland’s term on the UN Security Council from 2021 to 2022. Previously she was based in Ethiopia as Ireland’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the African Union. Joanne also has extensive humanitarian experience having worked for a number of years in the Great Lakes Region and as a protection advisor to humanitarian programmes in South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Lebanon among others.
Organisation
Department of Foreign Affairs
Member State authority
Speaker session
Safeguarding principled humanitarian action from the unintended negative impact of sanctions and counter-terrorism
Studio
This session will build upon developments in 2022 by addressing the unintended negative impact of sanctions and counter-terrorism, and present potential solutions to tackle practical challenges.
The session will incorporate voices from the field with the express purpose of highlighting the challenges under which humanitarian operators deliver humanitarian aid under sanctions or CT regimes. In this context, the session will discuss risk management by analysing the impact of humanitarian exemptions/derogations on increasing or lowering the risk of circumvention of sanction regimes. Finally, the session will debate the legal framework by narrowing in on the question of whether humanitarian exemptions/derogations facilitate an efficient delivery of humanitarian assistance and mitigate any potential unintended negative impact of sanctions regimes. Specifically, the session seeks to evaluate whether the harmonization of exceptions in sanctions regimes and their language facilitates the efficient delivery of humanitarian aid.
Johan Forssell
Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade
Biography
2022- Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade
2010-2022 Member of the Riksdag
2007-2010 Director of Planning, Moderate Party
2006-2007 Chief of Staff, Prime Minister's Office
Organisation
Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Government Offices of Sweden
Member State authority
Speaker session
Safeguarding principled humanitarian action from the unintended negative impact of sanctions and counter-terrorism
Studio
This session will build upon developments in 2022 by addressing the unintended negative impact of sanctions and counter-terrorism, and present potential solutions to tackle practical challenges.
The session will incorporate voices from the field with the express purpose of highlighting the challenges under which humanitarian operators deliver humanitarian aid under sanctions or CT regimes. In this context, the session will discuss risk management by analysing the impact of humanitarian exemptions/derogations on increasing or lowering the risk of circumvention of sanction regimes. Finally, the session will debate the legal framework by narrowing in on the question of whether humanitarian exemptions/derogations facilitate an efficient delivery of humanitarian assistance and mitigate any potential unintended negative impact of sanctions regimes. Specifically, the session seeks to evaluate whether the harmonization of exceptions in sanctions regimes and their language facilitates the efficient delivery of humanitarian aid.