ETO CONSORTIUM

The ETO Consortium is a global network of over 140 CSOs and academics that seeks to create awareness on and advance the implementation of States' extraterritorial obligations (short: ETOs). These are the human rights obligations States have towards people in other countries. While crucial for addressing the challenges of globalization and ensuring the universal realization of human rights, many States continue to deny having such obligations and attempt to confine their obligations to the domestic sphere... The ETO Consortium was founded in 2007 with the purpose to address the gaps in the international protection of human rights that have resulted from the neglect of ETOs. The main terms of reference are the Maastricht Principles on the Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Issued in September 2011 by international law and human rights experts from different regions of the world, including (former) members of international and..

Registration numbers: VR 1518 (W)

Primary location: San Francisco United States