Sanctions list
The UN Security Council Consolidated List: who is on it and how to screen against it
The UN Security Council Consolidated List records every individual and entity subject to sanctions measures imposed by the Security Council — asset freezes, travel bans and arms embargoes — across all of its sanctions committees. CompliAPI ingests the Security Council's XML daily and screens the names, identity documents, emails and websites in each entry.
- Publisher
- United Nations Security Council
- List type
- Sanctions
- Refresh
- Ingested daily
- API list slug
un_sc- Official source
- UN Security Council Consolidated List
- Download
- Full list as CSVJSONOfficial fileNo API key required.
About this list
The Security Council imposes sanctions by resolution and assigns each regime to a sanctions committee — ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida, the Taliban, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Libya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and others. The Consolidated List brings every committee's designations into one publication, which the Security Council makes available as XML, HTML and PDF. Each entry carries a permanent reference number naming its regime (for example CDi.002 for an individual under the DRC regime), the date it was listed, names and aliases, and, where known, birth dates, nationalities, addresses and identity documents.
UN member states are obliged to implement these measures, which is why the same people and entities also appear on national lists: the EU, UK, Swiss and Australian lists all carry UN designations alongside their own. The Consolidated List is the Security Council's own record of what it designated. On 7 November 2026 it listed 733 individuals and 274 entities. It does not include sanctions adopted unilaterally by any state, and it is not a list of sanctioned countries.
Aliases are graded by the Security Council: 'good quality' aliases identify the person, while 'low quality' aliases are too vague to rely on. CompliAPI screens names and good-quality aliases, including names in their original script, and reports low-quality aliases in the match metadata without matching on them. Passport and national ID numbers come from typed document fields; emails and websites appear only in free-text comments, which CompliAPI scans while ignoring the INTERPOL notice links every entry carries.
What CompliAPI extracts
- Names and aliases of individuals and entities, including original-script spellings, screened with /screen/name
- Government-issued IDs — passport and national identification numbers
- Email addresses and websites named in the list's comments
How CompliAPI handles it
Official XML, daily
CompliAPI downloads the Security Council's consolidated XML daily. Individuals and entities are parsed with their reference number, regime and listing details attached, and a download cut short fails to parse instead of being reconciled as a shorter list.
Names and identifiers
Every name and good-quality alias becomes screenable through /screen/name, with birth dates and nationalities kept to separate namesakes. Passport and national ID numbers are screenable through /screen/id, and emails and websites through their own endpoints.
Reconciled with delistings tracked
Each run is reconciled for this list alone: identifiers of parties the Security Council removes stop matching and appear on the delisted entities page, without touching any national list's data.
Screen against this list
Every /screen endpoint checks all enabled lists by default and names the list behind each match. Add the ?lists= filter to restrict a request to this source.
GET /api/v1/screen/name?name={name}&lists=un_sc
Response
{
"value": "Jane Example",
"flagged": false,
"sanctioned": false,
"lists_checked": ["un_sc"],
"threshold": 85,
"excluded": 0,
"matches": []
}Frequently asked questions
What is the UN Security Council Consolidated List?
The list of every individual and entity subject to sanctions measures imposed by the UN Security Council, across all of its sanctions committees. Each entry has a permanent reference number, the regime it falls under, its listing date and the identifying details the Security Council published. It is the Security Council's own record; member states implement it through their national lists.
If national lists already include UN designations, why screen the UN list too?
National lists implement UN designations on their own timetable and in their own legal form, so a new or amended Security Council listing can reach the UN list before it reaches a given national list. Screening the Consolidated List directly checks against the Security Council's record itself. CompliAPI names the list on every match, so a person on both the UN and EU lists returns one match per list.
Can I screen a name against the UN sanctions list?
Yes. GET /api/v1/screen/name matches a person or entity name against the primary names and good-quality aliases on the Consolidated List, ignoring word order, case and accents and tolerating single typos, and returns each match with a 0–100 score and its reasons. Adding ?lists=un_sc restricts the check to the UN list. A name match is a lead for review, not a determination.
What are low-quality aliases on the UN list?
The Security Council grades each alias of an individual. Good-quality aliases are names the person is known by; low-quality aliases are vaguer — nicknames or partial names such as a single word — that would match too many unrelated people. CompliAPI does not match on low-quality aliases but returns them in the match metadata so a reviewer can see them.
Does a UN list match set sanctioned: true?
Yes. The UN Security Council Consolidated List is classified as sanctions data, so any match sets both flagged and sanctioned, with the match naming un_sc as its list and carrying the entry's reference number and regime in its metadata.
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