Arms Trade and Women’s Rights: Extraterritorial Obligations under CEDAW
A new study examines how the international arms trade intersects with states’ obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), with particular attention to states’ extraterritorial obligations. It argues that arms transfers can contribute to patterns of gender-based violence and discrimination against women, especially in conflict-affected and fragile […]
Webinar – Illegal Occupation, Genocide, and Business: Reflections on the Case of Palestine (Part II)
This follow-up webinar (see here information on the first part), held on 28 July, tackled the role of businesses in sustaining grave illegalities committed by the state of Israel, the risk posed to corporations engaging in the Israeli war economy, legal and ethical obligations of corporations operating in Israel, pathways toward accountability, sanctions, and divestment, […]
Webinar – Breaking Impunity: Global Strategic Litigation and Accountability for Palestine
On 21 July 2025, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, ESCR-Net, the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians, Law for Palestine, and the ETO Consortium organized a webinar focussing on global strategic litigation and accountability regarding Palestine. The Background: Over four months have passed since Israel imposed a near-total blockade on humanitarian aid and life-saving […]
Webinar – Illegal Occupation, Genocide, and Business: Reflections on the Case of Palestine (Part I)
On 2 July 2025, in collaboration with diverse academics and CSOs, the ETO Consortium co-sponsored a webinar on “Illegal Occupation, Genocide, and Business: Reflections on the Case of Palestine“. In January 2024, the ICJ affirmed the plausibility of genocide in Gaza. Following the Court’s provisional measures, a series of reports from UN independent mechanisms and […]
Webinar – Economic Responsibility of Third-Party States Arising from the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Palestine
The ETO Consortium co-sponsored, on 21 January 2025, a webinar with the Independent Commission for Human Rights and Law for Palestine on the topic “Economic Responsibility of Third-Party States Arising from the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Palestine”. The ICJ Advisory Opinion and recent UNGA Resolution A/RES/ES-10/24 highlight the legal obligations of states to act against […]
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 […]
New Publication on Global Land and Resource Grabbing
The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing has just been published. Co-edited by ETO Consortium academic member Andreas Neef (University of Auckland, New Zealand), “[this] handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resource grabbing.” The abstract of the handbook further reads: Global land and resource grabbing has become an increasingly […]
Workshop – Distribution of Responsibility in Protecting Human Rights
Focus on Climate Change & Business and Human rights 26 and 27 June 2023 | University of North Carolina – Asheville This workshop focuses on answering the complex questions surrounding extraterritorial human rights obligations. While the notion of such obligations is widely accepted, the scope and legal consequences of these obligations remain unanswered. This workshop […]
Summer School on Transnational Litigation in Ravenna (July 2023)
In 2023, between 17-22 July, the Summer School on “Cross-border litigation and international arbitration” will take place in Ravenna (and online). This year’s program looks at cross-border litigation from a wider perspective, embracing for the first time also international arbitration. While at the core of the program still lies the European space of justice, with […]
The 2023 “Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review” is out
TRIAL International – in collaboration with Civitas Maxima, Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), REDRESS and ETO Consortium members ECCHR and FIDH – published on 17 April the 2023 edition of the Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review (UJAR 2023). This reports highlights the “increasing use of the principles of universal and extraterritorial jurisdiction to curb impunity for […]