Every Year, Sanctions Kill More People Than Wars (peoplesdispatch.org)

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Between 2010 and 2021, unilateral sanctions caused ~564,258 deaths each year – more than five times the number of people killed annually in direct armed combat. This warning comes from a new report published in The Lancet, which contextualizes decades of data on how sanctions affect mortality.

“From a rights-based perspective, evidence that sanctions lead to losses in lives should be sufficient reason to advocate for the suspension of their use,” the study’s authors argue. But that is far from reality. Over the same decade, nearly a quarter of all of the world’s countries were affected by sanctions, driven primarily by a sharp increase in unilateral economic measures imposed by the United States and its European allies.

While Western sanctions “have the claimed aim to end wars, protect human rights, or promote democracy,” the report shows they do the very opposite. By restricting a country’s ability to import essential goods like food, medicine, and medical supplies, and by slashing public budgets, sanctions systematically undermine healthcare systems and other vital services.

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[-] mrdown@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

why the sanctions are in place To collectively punish countries who doesn't align with the west. Iran could turn democratic and pro human rights and they would still get sanctionned

Maduro is an authoritarian who's starving his population and ask the women of Iran how they feel about their government.

The usa is starving the country they sanctions, the usa did war crimes all over the world with other western countries support and complicity, never get sanctionned, israel is comiting genocide and mass starvation never got sanctionned. Saudi arabia is an authoritarian regime as bad as iran never got sanctionned. You can ask saudis women how they feel their government too, you can ask people who fon't vote because they believe nobody represent them.

[-] Alterforlett@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

This will be the last one for me because you're clearly looking for a fight and not a discussion when you argue that I'm speaking for these other authoritarian and genociding regimes. And since it seems I have to spoon-feed you it, they should face serious repercussions. Every country that doesn't abide by basic human rights should be held accountable

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What a cheap shot from you , you can't defend the hypocrisy i mentioned so you start claiming that i just want a fight.

The western countries who caused the mess has zero right to punish other countries for their human right violations. Let Iranians fight their own oppressors

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