Human rights applied to CSDP operations and missions
Briefing
21-01-2014
The European Union must not only promote the observance of human rights by other international actors, but also respect them itself in the course of all its actions abroad. However, the applicability of international human rights instruments to EU Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) operations is problematic since the EU itself, as opposed to its Member States, is not party to these instruments.
Briefing
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Policy area
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- civil law
- diplomatic immunity
- EU law - national law
- EU military mission
- EU police mission
- European construction
- European Convention on Human Rights
- European Court of Human Rights
- European organisations
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- international affairs
- international human rights law
- international law
- INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- international security
- LAW
- liability
- multinational force
- public international law
- rights and freedoms