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.
Financialization of development cooperation. ETO responses
Todays’ finance industry is inherently global and beyond borders. National states and jurisdictions today only have a strategic value for finance industry actors in order to construct investment and finance chains and webs. Such webs increase the relevance of and entry points for extraterritorial human rights obligations (ETOs) in human rights work today. This chapter […]
Human rights-based approaches to development assistance and policies
The international community continues to experience global crises that not only threaten human rights and development but also necessitate transnational and collaborative action in addressing them and the need to intensify and rethink approaches to international cooperation and assistance, including development assistance. This chapter explains development assistance and its legal basis, the nature and scope […]
Diplomatic asylum and extraterritorial non-refoulement. The foundational and enduring contribution of Latin America to extraterritorial human rights obligations
Diplomatic asylum—a state offering refuge in its diplomatic premises in a foreign state to an individual requiring protection from that foreign state, as happened with Julian Assange in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London—is a practice long associated with Latin American States. Although not usually thought of in this way, it can and should be viewed […]
Climate change displacement and socio-economic rights of the child under the African human rights system
Climate change poses challenges world over, but Africa is disproportionately affected by its adverse effects, in particular, displacement. Children are a vulnerable group whose socio-economic rights are guaranteed under the African human rights system, which is defined by a set of human rights instruments and monitoring bodies. However, while social economic rights of the child […]
The establishment of ETOs in the context of externalised migration control
Affluent states increasingly seek to control migration beyond their borders. One means of doing this has been to relegate migration administration to third states. These practices raise the question whether states remain responsible under human rights law for protecting migrants whose stakes are governed by the third countries with which they cooperate. The first part […]
Extraterritorial human rights obligations in regard to refugees and migrants
This chapter analyses the ‘human rights turn’ within scholarly and litigative responses to transnational migration control. It examines the early responses to transnational migration control based on international refugee law and the wider impact of growing human rights litigation on state practice and policy development. It secondly argues that, the historical importance of extraterritorial human […]
Enforcement of extraterritorial human rights obligations in the African human rights system
This chapter examines the enforcement of extraterritorial human rights obligations in the African Union by its human rights monitoring bodies, to assess whether a uniquely African perspective on extraterritorial obligations can be identified. It explores whether the jurisprudence of the African Commission and African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and other monitoring bodies has […]
Extraterritorial obligations in the European human rights system
The conduct of state authorities may affect the human rights of individuals located outside their territory. In Europe the scope of extraterritorial obligations is closely tied to the jurisdiction clause in the European Convention on Human Rights. States will be internationally responsible for not only human rights violations attributed to them within their own territory, […]
Extraterritorial obligations in the inter-American human rights system
The conduct of states may affect the human rights of individuals located outside their borders. In the inter-American human rights system, the scope of extraterritorial obligations is linked to the universality principle and the jurisdiction clause. States are internationally responsible for not only human rights violations that were attributed to them within their own territory, […]
Extraterritorial obligations in the United Nations system: UN treaty bodies
The chapter focusses on the activity of five UN treaty bodies mandated to monitor the implementation of the core international human rights treaties – the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights; the Human Rights Committee; the Committee on the Rights of the Child; the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women; and the […]
Digitalization: The new extraterritorial challenge to extraterritorial obligations
The rise of the digital society is the defining features of the 21st century, now further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Digitalization affects our lives, transforming the way we live and work together in many ways: via new means of communication and collaboration; new products shaping key service components; the role of data as driver […]
Nowhere countries: When states use extra-territoriality at home to circumvent legal, human and refugee rights
The opening statement of the Maastricht Principles laments the fact that, ‘despite the universality of human rights, many States still interpret their human rights obligations as being applicable only within their own borders’. Concurring with the Maastricht Principles’ observation, this chapter discusses how two States have redrawn their borders in order to escape or lessen […]
