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The EU’s Human Rights Responsibility Gap

Deconstructing Human Rights Impunity of International Organisations

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The EU’s Human Rights Responsibility Gap

Deconstructing Human Rights Impunity of International Organisations

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Can the EU be held legally responsible for its contributions to human rights harms in its Integrated Border Management policy? Or do systemic legal design flaws in the EU's human rights responsibility regime give rise to a significant responsibility gap?

This book delves into these pressing questions, offering a transversal analysis of applicable legal frameworks under international and EU law. Divided into three parts, the book first analyses the international and EU human rights responsibility frameworks, revealing both 'normative incongruency' as well as 'liability incongruency'. Part two applies these frameworks to specific illustrations within the four tiers of the EU's Integrated Border Management, exposing the critical points where responsibility falters. Building on these findings and drawing from shared responsibility and relationality theories, part three briefly introduces 'Relational Human Rights Responsibility' as an alternative method to ascertaining human rights responsibility of the EU specifically, and international organisations more generally.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction
1. IOs, the EU and Human Rights Responsibility
2. EU Integrated Border Management and the Right to an Effective Remedy

Part II: The EU's Human Rights Responsibility Regime
3. Normative Incongruence: Human Rights Obligations of International Organisations and the EU
4. Liability Incongruence: Establishing Responsibility of IOs and the EU

Part III: EU Human Rights Responsibility in Practice
5. Adjudicatory Jurisdiction and the Non-Refoulement Principle
7. Operational Cooperation with Third Countries
8. Measures at the EU External Border
9. Return and Readmission Agreements with Third Countries

Part IV: Relational Human Rights Responsibility
10. Incongruence Clusters and EU Responsibility
11. EU Relational Human Rights Responsibility?

Product details

Published 21 May 2026
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 336
ISBN 9781509977390
Imprint Hart Publishing
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Joyce De Coninck

Joyce De Coninck is a post-doctoral researcher aff…

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