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Webinar – Debt, Tax, and Extraterritorial Obligations
This capacity-development webinar by the ETO Consortium, held on 7 November 2024, addressed the topic of Debt, Tax, and Extraterritorial Obligations. The webinar discussed some of the most pressing human rights and global justice issues raised by the current lack of international tax and debt regimes, together with ongoing advocacy efforts and more recent developments […]
Webinar – States’ Complicity in Exporting Arms to Israel
The ETO Consortium organizes a series of webinars on States’ obligations beyond borders. The first webinar in 2024 will deal with States’ obligations in the context of arms transfers to Israel. The webinar will discuss what international law provides for in the context of arms exports, and three concrete legal cases that were filed by […]
Principles on the Human Rights of Future Generations
The Maastricht Principles on the Human Rights of Future Generations were officially launched on 13 July 2023 during an event parallel to the High-Level Political Forum in New York. In 2017, a group of legal and human rights experts from around the world undertook a six-year process to examine the landscape of human rights law […]
Responding to Crises
Beyond Borders
Global Conference of
the ETO Consortium
16-19 June 2022
Nuremberg (Germany)
Some Publications
Filling Gaps in International Human Rights Law to Address Global Land and Resource Grabbing. Extraterritorial Human Rights Law Obligations of States and the Rights of Future Generations
Traditionally, human rights law (treaties in particular) applies only to the territories of states that have ratified such treaties, and only states are legally bound by these agreements. Yet, as a result of processes of globalization and the conduct of states, corporate actors and international organizations, including their involvement in land and resource grabbing, increasingly […]
12 Policies for States on ETOs
This booklet is meant primarily for public officials and their advisers working in international relations. It could, of course, be useful for everybody else concerned with international affairs. Its purpose is to trigger thought and discussion about the added value of extraterritorial human rights obligations for international policies. This booklet will show that ETOs in […]
14 Misconceptions about ETOs
When discussing ETOs with States – but also sometimes with the human rights community – ETO defenders often face some legal and doctrinal misunderstandings that need to be tackled. One of these misunderstandings relate to the attempted reduction of States’ obligations to territory.The following fourteen misconceptions are frequently encountered when discussing ETOs. This booklet aims […]
Toolkit for Human Rights Beyond Borders
The ETO Consortium published a handbook and a toolkit on how to monitor States’ compliance with their human rights obligations beyond their own territory. The handbook and toolkit “Human Rights Beyond Borders: How to Hold States Accountable for Extraterritorial Violations” aim to serve as a practical guide for human rights advocates and social movements in […]