WORKING TOOLS

ACCESS TO LAND

RIGHT TO WATER

EXTRATERRITORIAL STATE OBLIGATIONS

MONITORING

JUSTICIABILITY OF THE RIGHT TO FOOD

GENDER

PROGRAM AREAS

The ETO-Consortium

The ETO Consortium is a network of currently some 30 NGOs, university institutes and individuals from different parts of the world who prepare a "document of principles" on extraterritorial states obligations for economic, social and cultural rights.

FIAN's International Secretariat serves as the secretariat to the Consortium's steering committee consisting of Abo Akademi, Brot für die Welt, International Commission of Jurists, and the universities of Lancaster, Maastricht, North Carolina. Members of the Consortium include among others Amnesty International, CELS, COHRE, ESCR-net, FIDH, HIC, Public Health Movement, SERAC
The work of the Consortium is based on cases from a wide range of fields relevant for extraterritorial obligations. Topical working groups deal with the challenges in the field such as jurisdiction and accountability. Each case is worked by mixed teams of NGOs and academic experts. From this case background and the experience of movements and NGOs championed these cases, the necessary conceptual and legal principles of ETOs will be derived and cast into an international document.

Lancaster University maintains a website for the Consortium:  http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/humanrights/