SanctionsKill Campaign

SanctionsKill Campaign, or SanctionsKill, is an activist project using petitions, webinars, direct action, and print and social media intended to expose the human cost of sanctions and raise consciousness and discussion of what can be done to end them. The founding statement of SanctionsKill, issued in 2019, describes sanctions as a weapon of economic war and states that US-imposed sanctions violate international law and are a tool of regime change which are used, like military intervention, to topple popular governments and movements.

In a 2022 SanctionsKill report entitled U.S. Sanctions, Deadly, Destructive and in Violation of International Law, the authors note that sanctions are a form of deadly aggression and that more than two-thirds of world nations condemn and consider US sanctions ("unilateral coercive measures") a violation of international law and the UN charter, adding that this is largely unknown in the West because of effective censorship by western media. The report also mentions that US-driven sanctions are "backfiring by expediting the decline of US dollar dominance". The report also includes short synopses of the impact of sanctions in Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, DPRK, Syria, and Venezuela as well as quotes from people in places affected by sanctions.