Rescue at Sea: Human Rights obligations of states and private actors, with a focus on the EU’s external borders

Abstract

This Policy Paper results from a lecture delivered as part of the Executive Seminar on global governance and transnational human rights obligations, convened at the European University Institute in late November 2011. The event was related to GLOTHRO (Globalisation and Transnational Human Rights Obligations) which forms both a research strand within the Global Governance Programme at the EUI and a research networing programme under the auspices of the European Science Foundation. The paper emanates from EUI’s contribution within a project on the treatment and fundamental rights of third-country nationals at the EU's external borders”, commissioned by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency and coordinated by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD).