Articles with a tag: Megan Smith

Megan Smith is a Legal Officer at REDRESS, a British NGO that, among other things, works with civil society organizations from other countries to help draft sanctions submissions to the UK government under the recently adopted Magnitsky Act. Megan works specifically on the use of Magnitsky sanctions to hold those committing serious human rights violations accountabile. In her recent efforts, Megan has developed and campaigned for solutions to the lack of funding for reparations for victims of serious human rights violations, focusing on the use of sanctions and asset recovery mechanisms.

An experience of Megan Smith and REDRESS can be useful for Ukrainian human rights activists who have recently promoted the idea to impose sanctions for violations of human rights in occupied Crimea and Donbass, and for Ukrainian lawmakers and experts working on reloading the Ukrainian sanction policy. Megan Smith was interviewed by Yulia Kazdobina, expert of “How sanctions work” special project of the CJA and the head of the Ukrainian Foundation for Security Studies.