Australian sanction laws implement United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanctions regimes and Australian autonomous sanctions regimes.

The sanctions regimes currently implemented under Australian sanction laws are:

United Nations Security Council Sanctions

• Central African Republic
• Counter-Terrorism
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Guinea-Bissau
• Iraq
• ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida
• Lebanon
• Somalia
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• The Taliban
• Yemen

Australian Autonomous Sanctions

Country or former country

1. Former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
2. Myanmar
3. Russia/Ukraine
4. Zimbabwe

Thematic

• Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
• Significant cyber incidents
• Serious violations or serious abuses of human rights
• Serious corruption

Both

• Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
• Iran
• Libya
• Syria