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5 Eur. J. Comp. L. & Governance 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/eujclg5 and id is 1 raw text is: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW AND EJCL BRILL GOVERNANCE 5 (2018) 1-4 E NIJ HOFF brill.com/ejel Editorial Human Rights, Comparative Law and Global Governance This special issue focuses on human rights viewed from two perspectives: comparative methodology and global governance. It contains two compara- tive studies arising from long-term research projects. The first study, authored by Lottie Lane, deals with human rights and non-State actors. It starts from the premise that in the contemporary world, States are continuously losing ground to private actors. Many non-State actors - for example, multinational corpora- tions and non-State armed groups - are in a position to greatly affect individu- als' enjoyment of their human rights. The article critically analyses how and to what extent international human rights have had some kind of horizon- tal effect on non-State actors in the general comments and jurisprudence of five United Nations human rights treaty monitoring bodies.' It compares the different ways in which the five monitoring bodies deal with situations and cases where the harm to an individual's human rights was directly caused by a non-State actor. The study comes to the conclusion that currently, the horizon- tal effect of human rights at the international level is only indirect: non-State actors still do not have any binding international law obligations concerning human rights. However, on many occasions, the interpretations and applica- tions of United Nations human rights treaties by the monitoring bodies have clearly acknowledged the fact that situations of human rights violations can be caused by actions of private actors as well as States. In some occasions the i The five bodies are: (1) the Human Rights Committee; (2) the Committee on Economic, So- cial and Cultural Rights; (3) the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women; (4) the Committee against Torture; and (5) the Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. © KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2018 DOI 10.1163/22134514-00501003

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