NicaNotes: Unilateral Coercive Measures and Human Rights
Alfred de Zayas is a law professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and served as a UN Independent Expert on International Order 2012-18. In this article, Zayas clarifies that what are commonly referred to as “sanctions” imposed on Nicaragua by the United States are actually “Unilateral Coercive Measures” which constitute “collective punishment against innocent