Cette section vous permet d’accéder à plusieurs publications sur les obligations extraterritoriales.
A ce stade, vous pourrez voir des publications du Consortium ETO ainsi que des compilations éditées par des académiques (dont la plupart sont membres du Consortium ETO).
Veuillez noter qu’à un stade ultérieur, vous pourrez accéder à des bases de données plus importantes: une base de données rassemblant des articles et des livres par des universitaires. Et plus tard, deux bases de données rassemblant des publications des organisations de la société civile relatives aux ETO et les déclarations par le système onusien sur les ETO.
Ci-dessous, vous pouvez accéder à des publications clés: celles du Consortium ETO, tous les articles en libre accès du Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations (uniquement en anglais), ainsi que quelques articles utiles.
Home-state regulation of corporations
Le résumé et l’article ne sont disponibles qu’en anglais. The chapter traces a gradual convergence between the regulatory models that underpin these different domains of legal ordering one decade after the endorsement of the United Nations (UN) Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). It is argues that the location of business actors and […]
Extraterritorial human rights obligations in the context of economic sanctions
Le résumé et l’article ne sont disponibles qu’en anglais. 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 […]
Cross-border pollution
Le résumé et l’article ne sont disponibles qu’en anglais. While the Maastricht Principles constitute a good basis for extraterritorial obligations regarding human rights violations arising from cross-border pollution, prescribing more punctual threshold criteria could have better reflected positive international law. The Maastricht Principles incorporate a detailed guidance as to the content of the States’ obligations […]
Cybersecurity and extraterritorial obligations of states
Le résumé et l’article ne sont disponibles qu’en anglais. Ensuring cybersecurity is a common interest-based obligation for states. This applies independently of borders, especially as failing to ensure cybersecurity in one state means endangering cybersecurity in all states. Human rights-related extraterritorial obligations of states oblige states to ensure an adequate level of cybersecurity and are […]
Arms trade and weapons export control
Le résumé et l’article ne sont disponibles qu’en anglais. International arms sales are a thriving business giving rise to a host of legal concerns for both the supplying and the recipient countries. How much due diligence is a ‘sending’ state required to engage in before weapons are sold? Does state authorization effectively obviate the existence […]
Extraordinary rendition. A classic example of the USA avoiding ETOs as seen from Europe
Le résumé et l’article ne sont disponibles qu’en anglais. 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 […]
Obligations of international assistance and cooperation in the context of investment law
Le résumé et l’article ne sont disponibles qu’en anglais. 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 […]
International tax transparency and Least Developed Countries
Le résumé et l’article ne sont disponibles qu’en anglais. Addressing tax-related illicit financial flows (IFFs) from the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is a quintessential human rights issue. With nearly three quarters of LDCs located in sub-Saharan Africa – the region that is now home to the vast majority of people in extreme poverty loses more […]
Extraterritorial human rights obligations and international financial institutions
Le résumé et l’article ne sont disponibles qu’en anglais. 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 […]
Extraterritorial human rights obligations and sovereign debt
Le résumé et l’article ne sont disponibles qu’en anglais. 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 […]
Financialization of development cooperation. ETO responses
Le résumé et l’article ne sont disponibles qu’en anglais. 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 […]
Human rights-based approaches to development assistance and policies
Le résumé et l’article ne sont disponibles qu’en anglais. 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 […]