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Beyond Bankovic: Extraterritorial Application Of The European Convention On Human Rights, Federico Sperotto
Beyond Bankovic: Extraterritorial Application Of The European Convention On Human Rights, Federico Sperotto
Human Rights & Human Welfare
The obligations set forth in the international and regional instruments on human rights are considered as having a strictly territorial scope. States parties have the duty to guarantee the rights recognized in the treaties to all individuals within their territories. The territorial reach of these obligations is expanding by way of interpretation. In its decision on Bankovic, the European Court reduced the impact of this international trend toward a progressive enlargement of the protection granted by human rights treaties, affirming those attacks conducted by NATO against Yugoslavia in 1999 fell out of the extraterritorial reach of the European Convention. After …