UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The ombudswoman for the United Nations’ al Qaeda blacklist yesterday called for her oversight to be expanded to more than a dozen other UN Security Council sanctions regimes to ensure fair process for the individuals and entities targeted.
Ombudswoman Kimberly Prost has the authority to recommend removal of people from the UN al Qaeda blacklist, which currently has 231 individuals and 69 entities. The 15 council members must agree unanimously to override the recommendation or call for the council to take up the issue.
Prost says she needs oversight for other UN sanctions regimes to prevent people being removed from one, only to be put another, and to ensure people on all blacklists have an equal chance of being removed.
