TY - BOOK ID - 1518733 TI - Extraterritorial application of human rights treaties AU - Coomans, Fons AU - Kamminga, Menno T. AU - Intersentia PY - 2004 VL - 2 SN - 9050953948 9789050953948 PB - Antwerpen Oxford Intersentia DB - UniCat KW - Human rights KW - Polemology KW - Droit international KW - Droits de l'homme KW - Internationaal recht KW - Mensenrechten KW - Human Rights KW - International crimes KW - Exterritoriality KW - 327.5 KW - 342.72/.73 KW - Internationale conflicten. Internationale spanningen. Internationale blokvorming. Veiligheidspolitiek KW - Exterritoriality. KW - Human rights. KW - International crimes. KW - International offenses. KW - 327.5 Internationale conflicten. Internationale spanningen. Internationale blokvorming. Veiligheidspolitiek KW - Crimes, International KW - International crime KW - International offenses KW - Crime KW - Basic rights KW - Civil rights (International law) KW - Rights, Human KW - Rights of man KW - Human security KW - Transitional justice KW - Truth commissions KW - Extraterritoriality KW - Jurisdiction, Exterritorial KW - International law KW - Capitulations KW - Universal jurisdiction KW - Law and legislation KW - Convention europeenne des droits de l'homme (cedh) KW - Droits de l'homme (droit international) KW - Pacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques KW - Pacte international relatif aux droits economiques, sociaux et culturels KW - Exterritorialité KW - Droits de l'homme (Droit international) KW - Treaties KW - Traités UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1518733 AB - Be as it is the result of the war on terrorism, foreign military intervention, economic globalisation or otherwise, state conduct increasingly affects the human rights of individuals beyond its own borders. This book provides a comprehensive answer to the question whether existing human rights treaties are applicable in such circumstances. The principal treaties on civil and political rights require states to guarantee certain human rights to persons ‘within their jurisdiction’. What is the meaning of these terms? Are states able to evade the application of these treaties by detaining their opponents on foreign soil rather than within their own borders? Does it make a difference to the applicability of these treaties, whether a victim of an extraterritorial assassination by state agents, was a detainee, who had not been arrested? By contrast, treaties on economic, social and cultural rights tend to specifically to provide that states must strive for the full realisation of these rights through international co-operation. The problem here is that the precise nature and content of this obligation is unclear. For example, what is the extent of states' obligations to contribute to sustainable development in other states? What are their obligations as members of the executive bodies of international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF? This book focuses on the extraterritorial application of four key human rights treaties: the two UN Covenants on Human Rights and the American and European Conventions on Human Rights. It reveals that supervisory bodies are inconsistent in their implementation of these treaties and discusses the pros and cons of both a restrictive and a non-restrictive approach. ER -