Autore
Pontecorvo, Concetta MariaTitolo
Consiglio di sicurezza e risorse naturali viventi: il wildlife trafficking come fuelling factor dei conflitti armatiPeriodico
Ordine internazionale e diritti umaniAnno:
2014 - Fascicolo:
5 - Pagina iniziale:
938 - Pagina finale:
971In two recent resolutions, on Central African Republic (res. 2134) and on the
Democratic Republic of Congo (res. 2136), the UN Security Council authorized for the
first time targeted sanctions against wildlife product traffickers and against persons and
entities pulling the strings.
The resolutions were primarily targeting persons and entities supporting a number of
armed rebel groups operating in the Eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo
and in the Central African Republic (the Lord Resistance Army and the Sudan’s Janjaweed
militia). These armed groups are suspected by the United Nations to use the illegal ivory
trade as a source of generating finances or otherwise to benefit from the illegal wildlife
trade.
As will be shown in this paper, with these resolutions the Security Council de facto
qualified wildlife poaching and trafficking as a ‘threat to the peace’ (given its role as a fuelling
factor of the armed conflicts occurring in both DRC and CAR). Besides analyzing the
content and legal relevance of the two resolutions, the paper will illustrate and discuss
recent international and regional (normative) practice on illegal wildlife poaching and
trafficking, highlighting it (also) as an emerging threat to human security
SICI: 2284-3531(2014)5<938:CDSERN>2.0.ZU;2-2
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