Resisting external accountability : the European Union and human rights

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dc.contributor.authorDE BURCA, Grainne
dc.contributor.authorKILPATRICK, Claire
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-28T10:48:31Z
dc.date.available2025-01-28T10:48:31Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionPublished online: 30 July 2024en
dc.description.abstractThe EU today has quite a strong and extensive body of human rights law, with numerous internal accountability institutions and mechanisms. However, despite the EU Treaty declaration that it is founded on respect for human rights, and despite assertions of openness to the UN and the international legal order, the EU to date has resisted external human rights accountability. This chapter argues that external accountability is a key dimension of modern human rights law. We argue that the EU’s poor record in this respect – its decision to accede fully to just one international human rights treaty (the UN CRPD), and only partially to a second (the Istanbul Convention), while showing little interest in the wider body of international human rights treaties and their accountability mechanisms – is not justified by any compelling reasons, but instead undermines the EU’s stature and credibility as an international actor.en
dc.identifier.citationKenneth A. ARMSTRONG, Joanne SCOTT and Anne THIES (eds), EU external relations and the power of law : liber amicorum in honour of Marise Cremona, Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2024; pp. 137-160en
dc.identifier.isbn9781509940950
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/77860
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dc.publisherHart Publishingen
dc.titleResisting external accountability : the European Union and human rightsen
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