UN experts' group call for an end to all unilateral sanctions

GENEVA: A group of UN experts have called for the lifting of all unilateral sanctions amid the COVID-19 pandemic so that people in countries under sanctions can protect themselves against the deadly virus.

"Sanctions should be lifted, or at a minimum eased, so people can get basics like soap and disinfectants to stay healthy, and so that hospitals can get ventilators and other equipment to keep people alive," Xinhua news agency quoted the experts as saying in a joint statement on Friday.

"Sanctions that were imposed in the name of delivering human rights are in fact killing people and depriving them of fundamental rights, including the rights to health, to food and to life itself," they added. (IANS) 

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