Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : transnational human rights obligations, Mark Gibney and Wouter Vandenhole -- U.S. trade santions (World Trade Organization, panel, Claire Buggenhoudt) -- Biofuel and the right to food (world trade organization, panel), Alexia Herwig -- Land grabbing and gender issues (international finance corporation and compliance advisor ombudsman), Joss Saunders -- Putting an end to victims without borders : child pornography (committee on the rights of the child), Gamze Erdem T�urkelli -- Extraterritorial shared responsibility for the right to health (committee on economic, social and cultural rights), Rachel Hammonds and Gorik Ooms -- Economic, social, and cultural rights of Nuba Peoples (Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights), Jernej Letnar Cernic -- "Only the little people pay taxes": tax evasion and Switzerland's extraterritorial obligations to economic, social, and cultural rights (Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights), Nicholas Lusiani -- Labour rights in a transnational perspective (Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), Arne Vandenbogaerde -- Climate change (Human Rights Committee, Ad Hoc Conciliation Commission), Margreet Wewerinke -- Land grabbing in Uganda by a multinational coporation (World Court of Justice), Christopher Mbazira -- Structural adjustment and farmers' suicide in India (International Court of Justice), Anita Punj -- (Economic) crimes against humanity (international criminal court), Michael Wabwile -- Public duties for private wrongs : regulation of multinationals (African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights), Takele Soboka Bulto -- Forced evictions in Zimbabwe (African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights), Khulekani Moyo -- Land grabbing in South America (Inter-American Human Rights Commission), Ana Maria Suarez-Franco -- Enforcing extraterritorial social rights in the Eurozone crisis (European Committee of Social Rights), Matthias Sant'ana -- Military interventions in non-European States (European Court of Human Rights), Nico Moons -- Extraordinary rendition (U.S. Supreme Court), Mark Gibney.

Human rights have traditionally been framed in a vertical perspective with the duties of States confined to their own citizens or residents. Obligations beyond this territorial space have been viewed as either being absent or minimalistic at best. However, the territorial paradigm has now been seriously challenged in recent years in part because of the increasing awareness of the ability of States and other actors to impact human rights far from home both positively and negatively. In response to this awareness various legal principles have come into existence setting out some transnational hu.