The U.N. Security Council Adopts a Standing Humanitarian “Carve-out”

On Dec. 9, the United Nations Security Council adopted a standing humanitarian “carve-out” to nearly all of its asset freezes. (The remaining asset-freeze regime, as we explain below, already contained a similar “carve-out.”) In doing so, the Security Council made a watershed decision—one with potentially far-reaching implications for efforts to safeguard impartial humanitarian assistance in numerous crises around the world. Further, the rationale underpinning the resolution’s core obligation arguably reflects something of a sea-change regarding a

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