Economic and Social Rights, Extraterritorial Application »
Elif Askin
1 Economic and social human rights are affected not only by the territorial State but also by other foreign or third States. Cross-border infringements of these rights of individuals situated in countries other than the potentially obligated State do not usually depend on the extraterritorial conduct of foreign State organs, which are physically present on foreign soil. Instead, in a globalized economy, sovereign States’ intraterritorial trade (Trade and Human Rights) and their financial, investment, or other laws, policies, and practices increasingly produce...
