Human Rights Accountability of Non-Universally Recognised States and State-Like Entities

Edited by Kushtrim Istrefi, Luca Pasquet, Lucas Roorda, Cedric Ryngaert and Berfin Deniz Çabuk

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Abstract: This book explores the human rights accountability of non-universally recognised states, unlawful entities that exercise effective control over territories, and sui generis subjects and territories when they exercise state-like powers. Overall, the book seeks to question whether the current doctrine of international subjectivity is adequate to provide for accountability for the acts of state-like entities. It also intends to delve into the strategic use of legal subjectivity by international actors, and its consequences for human rights accountability.

Keywords: Human Rights Accountability; Non-Recognised States; State-Like Entities; Responsibility; International Human Rights Law; Recognition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035365128
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: human rights accountability of state-like and non-universally recognised states

Kushtrim Istrefi, Luca Pasquet, Lucas Roorda and Cedric Ryngaert

Ch 2 Statehood, territory and non-state territorial entities

Jure Vidmar

Ch 3 Reorienting responsibility: looking to the functional capacity of non-state effective territorial entities to achieve human rights accountability

Sarah McGibbon

Ch 4 Towards the accountability of state-like entities under international human rights law

Linda Hamid

Ch 5 Limits to human rights obligations of secessionist entities: protection gap uncertainty and legitimation of illegality

Júlia Miklasová

Ch 6 Human rights accountability of sui generis entities: investigating domestic avenues

Haris Huremagić and Fritz Kainz

Ch 7 The determination of accountability for human rights on leased territories

Michael J. Strauss

Ch 8 Unrecognised states and overseas territories at the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review

Frederick Cowell

Ch 9 Contested statehood and international legal personality: the case of the Holy See

John R. Morss

Ch 10 International human rights standards and accountability of Kosovo

Robert Muharremi and Kushtrim Istrefi

Ch 11 With limited power still comes great responsibility: human rights obligations and responsibility in Palestine as a limited state

Shadi Sakran

Ch 12 A ‘non-state’ acting as a state? The case of the protection and promotion of human rights in Somaliland

Cristiano D’Orsi

Ch 13 Human rights accountability in the context of the de facto division of Cyprus

Aristoteles Constantinides

Ch 14 Human rights accountability in Western Sahara: responsibility without recognition

Andrea Maria Pelliconi and Jed Odermatt

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