Emma O'Leary
Head of Humanitarian Policy
Organisation
Norwegian Refugee Council
NGO
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.
Emmanuel Tronc
Country Director
Biography
Emmanuel Tronc
Syria Mission Country Director
HEKS/EPER Focal point of the Damascus INGOs forum for sanctions related issues, Emmanuel spent seven years in Syria, capitalizing on coercive measures impact on the population and the delivery of humanitarian aid. He is a Chemistry engineer with seventeen years' experience in the Humanitarian & Development fields in the Middle East and Latin America.
Organisation
HEKS/EPER
NGO
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.
Erica Moret
Senior Researcher
Biography
Dr Erica Moret is a specialist on sanctions, global security and humanitarian affairs. She is Senior Researcher at the Geneva Graduate Institute (Geneva Centre for Humanitarian Studies) and coordinates the Geneva International Sanctions Network (GISN) and the Sanctions and Sustainable Peace Hub. She is also Policy Director at the Swiss Centre for Policy Engagement, Polisync and serves as an independent expert to the UN, EU, Swiss government and humanitarian organisations. She has a PhD (DPhil) from the University of Oxford and has provided advice and evidence on sanctions-related matters to the Biden Administration, US Congress, Canadian Senate, and Global Affairs Canada, European Parliament and both UK Houses of Parliament. She coordinates multi-stakeholder dialogues on behalf of the EU and Swiss governments on technical solutions relating to financial sector derisking, private sector overcompliance and challenges faced in humanitarian and migrant remittances.
Dr Moret offers a capacity building course for humanitarian actors on sanctions online and in person in Geneva (as well as tailored courses elsewhere): https://www.polisync.org/workshops/p/sanctions-1.
Organisation
Geneva Graduate Institute
Academic
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.