Towards the True Universality of Human Rights? : An analysis of the Strasbourg Court’s development of a Functional Approach to Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and the Implications for the Protection of the Human Rights of Civilians Abroad During Conflicts
Journal: Doria (University of Helsinki)
Year: 2023

Current conflicts increasingly affect civilians, involve multiple parties, and are of ambiguous nature. Therefore, international law and international human rights bodies, must develop new methods to approach alleged human rights violations taking place in such contexts. This thesis analyses one of these methods, i.e., the extraterritorial application of international and regional human rights treaties. Especially the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), has adopted a restrictive approach con