The EU’s Human Rights Responsibility Gap: Deconstructing Human Rights Impunity of International Organisations...

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Joyce De Coninck (Ghent University, Belgium)

The EU’s Human Rights Responsibility Gap

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Deconstructing Human Rights Impunity of International Organisations

Joyce De Coninck (Ghent University, Belgium)

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Hart Publishing
21 May 2026

International human rights law; International organisations & institutions; Responsibility of states & other entities; Immigration law

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.

By: Joyce De Coninck (Ghent University Belgium)
Imprint: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781509977390
ISBN 10: 1509977392
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 21 May 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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?

Joyce De Coninck is a post-doctoral researcher affiliated with Ghent University, Belgium, and a Scholar in Residence at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University, USA.