6 - The Responsibility of Non-state Actors

Summary

The chapter explains that non-state actors controlling the area outside the effective control of the State can incur responsibility for the violations of their obligations under international human rights law. The norms of the responsibility of peace operations and de facto regimes provide an existing but rarely applied legal framework. Peace operations and de facto regimes incur responsibility not only for wrongful acts committed by persons or groups of persons whose conduct is attributable to them, but also for the failure to comply with their own due diligence obligations.