Publications

This section allows you to access several publications on extraterritorial obligations.

At this stage, you will be able to see publications by the ETO Consortium as well as compilations edited by academics (most of whom are members of the ETO Consortium).

Note! We will shortly have larger databases available: a collection of articles and books by academics. And at later stage two databases bringing together ETO-related publications by civil-society organizations and UN pronouncements on ETOs.

Beneath, you can access key publications: those by the ETO Consortium, all open access articles of the Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations, as well as some other useful articles.

Extraordinary rendition. A classic example of the USA avoiding ETOs as seen from Europe

Extraordinary rendition. A classic example of the USA avoiding ETOs as seen from Europe

This chapter examines the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) extraordinary rendition programme from the perspective of its consequences for European states which provided assistance. Extraordinary rendition, the term given to the kidnapping by US state officials (CIA) of persons suspected of terrorist involvement from the state where they are present and their (involuntary) transport to another […]
Access to medicines and the TRIPS agreement. Recognising extraterritorial human rights obligations

Access to medicines and the TRIPS agreement. Recognising extraterritorial human rights obligations

Access to (essential) medicines is a global and shared responsibility. This chapter starts from the basis that states have human rights obligations beyond a state’s national borders, so-called extraterritorial human rights obligations (ETOs) to respect, protect and fulfil access to medicines. International intellectual property regimes, particularly the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of […]
Obligations of international assistance and cooperation in the context of investment law

Obligations of international assistance and cooperation in the context of investment law

This Chapter considers states’ obligations to provide international assistance and cooperation for the protection of human rights in the context of international investment agreements. Investment agreements provide substantive protections to foreign investors, primarily businesses, when they undertake commercial investments outside their state of nationality. Explicit conflicts between investment law and human rights law remain rare, […]
Extraterritorial human rights obligations and international financial institutions

Extraterritorial human rights obligations and international financial institutions

International Financial Institutions (IFIs) provide public financing for development policies, projects, programmes or macroeconomic policy. The effects on human rights resulting from their policies and practices have been debated for the last 30 years, increasingly through the lens of extraterritorial human rights obligations (ETOs). ETO related to IFIs may be defined along two main axes. […]
Extraterritorial human rights obligations in the context of economic sanctions

Extraterritorial human rights obligations in the context of economic sanctions

Economic sanctions are a discretionary tool of international relations governed by various legal regimes. These trade and financial countermeasures generally seek to bring illegal situations to an end. Over decades, economic sanctions have been targeted to avoid the violation of civilians’ human rights. The article provides examples of extraterritorial human rights obligations (ETOs) to respect […]
Extraterritorial human rights obligations and sovereign debt

Extraterritorial human rights obligations and sovereign debt

Since the 1970s, sovereign financing has become a predominantly debt- and market-based practice, with a pronounced transnational dimension. A growing number of states, including several advanced economies, increasingly rely on debt, global financial markets and international institutions to fund their sovereign functions. Monetary, economic and fiscal decisions and their human rights consequences, therefore, naturally transcend […]