Global Affairs Canada

Legislation

• United Nations Act (UNA)
• Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA)
• Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (JVCFOA)

Current Sanctions Programs

UNA and SEMA sanctions programs:

• Belarus
• Central African Republic
• China
• Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Guatemala
• Haiti
• Iran
• Iraq
• Lebanon
• Libya
• Moldova
• Myanmar
• Nicaragua
• Russia
• Somalia
• South Sudan
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Syria
• Ukraine (linked to Russia’s ongoing violations of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity)
• Venezuela
• Yemen
• Zimbabwe

Other sanctions programs

• Canadian sanctions related to the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act
• Terrorism
• Extremist Settler Violence in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem (occupied Palestinian territories/oPt)
• Measures against individuals under the Freezing Assets of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act.

Repealed Sanctions Programs

• Côte d’Ivoire
• Eritrea
• Liberia
• Mali
• Rwanda
• Sierra Leone
• Yugoslavia