Introducing an analytical framework for international due diligence obligations and testing it against several practical examples, this book is of relevance to both scholars and students of public international law as well as to practitioners and political decision-makers in the field of human rights protection.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; 1. Why to analyze state responsibility for human rights violations: the flawed debate on direct human rights obligations for non-state actors; 2. Establishing state responsibility for human rights violations: proposal for a conduct-based typology of human rights obligations; 3. The origins of due diligence in international law; 4. The components of the due diligence standard; 5. Lessons to be learned from the application of due diligence obligations in other fields of International Law; 6. Applying the due diligence framework to the field of human rights protection; 7. A case for extraterritorial due diligence obligations in the human rights context; Summary and outlook; Index.
