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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.
On September 26-27, 2008, the second conference of the ETO Consortium was held in Heidelberg, Germany. This conference brought together 34 members of the Consortium and additional guests and took stock of the case work and conceptual work done by the Consortium since its first meeting in Geneva on November 8-9, 2007. The work on ETO has advanced considerably since then. The Consortium will be intensifying its work during the next months on the basis of the results of the Heidelberg Conference.
Read the booklet ETOs - for a rights-based world order and the Flyer Human Rights need ETOs
Read the report on the 2nd ETO Conference, 2008
Read the report on the 3rd ETO Conference, 2009
Lancaster University maintains a website for the Consortium: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/humanrights/
