International Journal of Human Rights

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Human Rights is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
A comparison of state compliance with reparation orders by regional and sub-regional human rights tribunals in Africa: case studies of Nigeria, The Gambia, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe40
‘Please, get me called to The Hague!’ The international criminal court as history’s soapbox22
Refusing reconciliation with settler colonialism: wider lessons from the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission22
The interior castle of conscience vs. new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnology19
Tracing the legal journey of petitions in the Uttarakhand High Court that became springboards for rights of rivers and nature in India18
Good better best? Human rights impact assessment in crisis lawmaking17
The child’s right to freedom of expression in Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara15
One-dimensional law: a critique of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment15
Protection of privacy in Bangladesh: issues, challenges and way forward14
Respatialising the global imaginary of gay rights: resisting Africana epistemicide and forging Solidaristic Imaginaries12
Diaspora transnationalism and transitional justice: theorising the politics of engagement12
A tale of two sovereigns: the responsibility to protect and the competing notions of responsible sovereignty12
Mobilising and constraining: the dynamics of human rights discourse in two Mexican social movements10
From liberal to conservative? The role of Hong Kong Court of final appeal in safeguarding fundamental rights under China's One Country Two Systems policy10
On the concepts of human security, dignity and vulnerability: understanding the mechanisms of being ‘at risk’9
The ‘Human Right to Science’ qua right to participate in science8
The West Papuan liberation movement, Indonesian settler colonialism and Western imperialism from an international solidarity perspective8
Do codes of conduct really mean a change in corporate practices with regard to human rights? Evidence from the largest garment companies worldwide8
Repoliticising indigenous participation: FPIC protocols in Canada and Brazil8
Universal human rights instruments and digital literacy of older persons7
The unintended consequences of school closures during COVID-19 on children and young people’s physical health rights -what are they and how can they be mitigated?7
The role of the European Union’s securitisation policies in exacerbating the intersectional vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers7
Public mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: impacts on children's rights7
Admitting (to) the past: transitional justice in the European and Inter-American courts of human rights7
Under the shadow of violence: are the Banyamulenge experiencing a slow genocide?7
Intersectional challenges in post-trafficking reintegration of survivor women of trafficking7
Internet access as a human right: insights from the empirical analysis of the UN international human rights framework*6
Measuring human rights? Vernacularisation and paradoxes of measurement in child poverty estimation6
Introduction6
Resurgent totalitarianism, charismatic dictatorship, and the rise of socio-political extremism in the age of globalisation and multiculturalism: an escalating human rights crisis6
Localised medical moralities: organ trafficking and Israeli medical professionals6
Sexual harassment in rural workplaces in India and the human rights discourse: a case study of select Hindi films6
Resource extraction as a tool of racism in West Papua5
Justice for atrocities: dialogues and encounters between Latin America and Europe. Introduction to the special issue5
An Histoire Juridique Commune? Historiographical frames in European and Inter-American human rights narratives5
Forest moralities, kindred knowledge and Sacha Runakuna : Kawsak Sacha as law5
In the best interest of the child: a study on unaccompanied migrant children at the gateway to Spain5
From the rule of law to a rule of rights5
Admitting but not apologising: the Indonesian government’s confrontation with the 1965–1966 genocide5
Between Scylla and Charybdis: the implications of the human right to science for regulating the harms and benefits of environmental science and technology4
Innovating in uncharted terrain: on interpretation and normative legitimacy in the CESCR’s General Comment No. 25 on the right to science4
The role of Criminal Justice in dealing with past atrocities in the Spanish and Argentine transitions: common grounds, but different pathways4
The Turkish Constitutional Court’s struggle with the European human rights law: an evaluation of the court’s case-law on the crime of ‘Defamation against the President’ in light of the jurisprudence o4
The road (not) taken: implications of health-focused arguments for rights-based climate change litigation in Europe4
Subsidiarity in the ECHR: an empty promise for local authorities?4
Justice from below: corporate accountability in Argentina4
Regulating transnational corporations at the United Nations – the negotiations of a treaty on business and human rights4
Feeding human rights: Jimmy Carter’s food politics for World Hunger4
Correction4
Anticipation and diplomacy (with)in science: activating the right to science for science diplomacy4
Playing through crisis: lessons from COVID-19 on play as a fundamental right of the child4
Foreign concerns: the impact of international investment law on the ethnic-based land restitution programme in Colombia4
Climate displacement and human rights: rectifying the current legal protection lacuna through international and regional solutions4
Expanding into the local level: selective and maximalist models of human rights implementation in Denmark and Sweden4
Human rights in international law, state responsibilities and accountability mechanisms: a case study of Iran4
‘I know about something called human rights’: claiming refugee rights through protest at UNHCR Beirut4
State obligation and landmines: human rights of the disabled in the Islamic Republic of Iran4
‘Male circumcision’ and ‘female genital mutilation’: why parents choose the procedures and the case for gender bias in medical nomenclature4
Surviving the pandemic: the livelihood struggles of undocumented Chinese immigrants in the UK3
Potential tension between children’s engagement in work and the rights of the child: resolving the conflict using margin of appreciation doctrine3
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and rights protection: revisionist or just another kid on the block?3
Genocide in Palestine: Gaza as a case study3
Discrimination against persons of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities as a statelessness-generating factor?3
Economic roots of media freedom: is income inequality a matter?3
The prevalence of identity among religious minorities in different human rights environments3
Academic freedom between past and present: the birth of one-dimensional academia in Turkey3
Exploring the role of regulation in urban citizenship practices: looking at Swiss and Turkish cities3
Global data on the freedom indispensable for scientific research: towards a reconciliation of academic reputation and academic freedom3
Rethinking the right to freedom of thought: on drug policy, neurotechnology, and the case for cognitive liberty3
Correction3
 … a substantial part of the trauma was caused by an accidental fall …  ’: liminal spaces and post-apartheid accountability in South Africa3
‘Human rights’ in judicial judgement of China3
The Cartagena ‘Spirit’ as a third world human rights alternative to refugee protection: lessons to learn from Brazil’s approach to Venezuelan socio-economic refugee3
Impact of clientelism on the rights of children in residential care: Cambodia and Myanmar3
Pandemic and community’s sense of justice through suo motu in India3
Cultural human rights as new foundations for interculturalist policies: a rights-based approach from Québec*3
A descriptive mixed-method study of legislation development pertaining to human rights with a focus on human trafficking in GCC countries2
The United Nations Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas: possibilities for the formation of a rural Latin-American historic bloc2
The social public interest in China's employment anti-discrimination laws and its realisation paths2
A new historical bloc and the political economy of international criminal prosecutions at the international criminal court2
ECtHR jurisprudence amid political shifts: rolling back the protection against pushbacks2
Torture manual: the military and the policing of Mexico’s war on drugs2
In the break (of rights and representation): sociality beyond the non/human subject2
Re-emphasizing the individual components of ‘child, early, and forced marriage’2
Roots of destruction: exploring the genocide-ecocide nexus through the destruction of olive trees in occupied Palestine and Rojava2
Constitutional review of criminal norms: does Indonesia need judicial activism?2
From human rights documentation towards arts-based interventions: NGO collaborations with artists and the reimagining of human rights2
#Papuanlivesmatter: how a narrative of racism has elevated West Papua’s decolonisation movement2
Comparing universal jurisdiction in Europe and in Latin America: a vehicle for international justice or for colonial reckoning?2
Towards an evaluation of the nexus between unfettered, unregulated capitalism, donor aid and debt relief inconsistencies, and the problem of post-election violence in Kenya2
Duty to protect and responsibility to respect: data privacy violations in pandemic times2
Losing sight of the abuse: how and why women’s and children’s rights are violated in child contact decisions after intimate partner violence in Europe2
Closing the circle of implementation: the sustainable development goals, universal periodic review, and the rights-based approach to development2
The role of international law in promoting and enforcing the rights of persons with disabilities2
How human rights implementation by local authorities dealing with Traveller evictions could be improved – Exploring strategies through case study analysis in a Belgian municipality2
From ‘raise the age’ to ‘raise the awareness’: how knowledge affects public opinion of the minimum age of criminal responsibility in Western Australia2
Limitation of rights in the times of the COVID-19 pandemic: a view from Kosovo’s Constitutional Court’s ‘shaky’ jurisprudence2
Human rights practices and college students’ attitudes towards the death penalty in China2
Protecting the right to housing in the era of financialisation: four principles for urban renewal2
Reaching the limit: access to remedy through nonjudicial mechanisms for victims of business-related human rights abuses2
Should a register be kept of conscientious objectors to euthanasia in Spain?2
Anticipatory duties under the human right to science and international biomedical law2
More than documenting LGBTQ + narratives: a human rights activists’ perspective from Colombia’s truth commission2
Ecocide, environmental harm and framework integration at the International Criminal Court2
Locating the stigmatisation of children born of wartime rape on a continuum of violence2
Constitutional bills of rights and democratic transformation in post-authoritarian scenarios1
The impact of hotel accommodation on asylum seekers’ mental health: a mixed methods study1
Between a rock and a hard place: academic freedom in globalising Chinese universities1
The genie of autonomy: steering mandatory mediation within human-rights limits1
A contextual analysis of the evolution of transitional justice: the story of Taiwan1
The fragile relationship between the amended International Health Regulations and human rights law1
Beyond liberal justice? Decolonising Colombian transitional justice through victims’ participation and indigenous rights1
Neurotechnologies and human rights: restating and reaffirming the multi-layered protection of the person1
Political, physical, and cultural techniques of genocide against the Rohingyas of Myanmar1
How to think about the instrumental politics of mass rape: a critical appraisal of feminist approaches1
The instrumental abuse of constitutional courts: how populists can use constitutional courts against the opposition1
Applying critical pedagogies to human rights education1
Children’s human rights in the contexts of domestic abuse and COVID-191
Compassion for change. Nurturing the motivation of staff in UN institutions dedicated to the promotion of human rights1
Abortion, same-sex marriage, and gender identity during the Pink Tide: Venezuela compared to Latin American trends1
Take me to the River: have riverine rights enhanced community participation in environmental governance within the Atrato River basin?1
Civil resistance campaign for the Free Papua Movement and student protests in 2019 in Surabaya, Indonesia1
The right to education of adults in Portugal1
From environmental war crimes to ecocide: lessons from Colombia’s transitional Justice1
Beyond legal personhood for the Whanganui River: collaboration and pluralism in implementing the Te Awa Tupua Act1
At-risk scholars in Europe: ‘academic humanitarianism’ in the name of science ‘here’ as opposed to the risk ‘there’1
The engagement to accountability continuum: how humanitarian and human rights organisations address human insecurity in North Korea1
From concern to condemnation: analysing the European parliament’s escalating human rights advocacy toward Iran1
The right to healthcare during the covid-19 pandemic under the European Convention on human rights1
Silencing the ‘Guapinol Eight’: abuse of the Honduran criminal justice system to unjustly criminalise and punish human rights defenders1
Muddy waters: on the problematic political ecology of the Atrato ruling, Colombia1
A human right to friendship? Dignity, autonomy, and social deprivation1
Opportunistic oppression: U.S. migration restrictions and public health policy during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Local authorities at the European Court of Human Rights1
Supporting academic freedom as a human right: challenges and solutions in academic publishing1
Is academic freedom at risk from internationalisation? Results from a 2020 survey of UK social scientists1
Intersections of ecocide, indigenous struggle, & pro-democracy conflict: implications of post-coup Myanmar for ecocide in international criminal law1
A response to decentralised governance of human rights: a Children's Rights Approach in Wales1
Abolishing the International Criminal Court1
‘After rights’ is friendship: on abandonment, obligation and the stranger1
Transitional justice and other-than-human harm: lessons from Colombia1
Reviewing the impact of COVID-19 on children’s rights to, in and through education1
Impunity in cases of serious human rights violations: three relevant aspects of contention in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights1
Displacing the displaced: the response to the protracted precarious situation of Syrian refugees in Türkiye during the Covid-19 pandemic1
Human rights leadership in challenging times: an agenda for research and practice1
Psychosocial justice and the transformative turn in transitional justice1
Are women not enslaved in Brazil? A data-driven analysis of gender dynamics in Brazilian antislavery efforts1
Applicability of the right to free elections clause of the ECHR to presidential elections: the case of Turkey's new presidential system1
Beyond sword and shield: the UN human rights system and criminal law1
Health, privacy and liberty: a call for digital governance during (and after) the pandemic1
Meaningful acknowledgement: how to evaluate acknowledgement in transitional justice interactions using deliberative reciprocity?1
A review of the legitimacy of FIFA’s participation in Qatar’s human rights governance1
The ping-pong strategy: confronting atrocities from the exile1
Reviving India’s river goddesses: ecocide, the human right to a healthy environment and rights of nature1
Protecting vulnerable groups in Europe: highlights from recent case law of the European Court of Human Rights1
‘Human, all too human’: the anthropocentricisation of ecocide1
Making pushback facts visible: a review of tools in existing case law and the procedural framework of the European Court of Human Rights1
Corporations and positive duties to fulfil socio-economic rights: developing international human rights law1
Seeking overlap and redundancy in human rights protection: reputation, consistency and the acceptance of the UN human rights treaties’ individual communications procedures1
Punishing or regulating? US media attention to hate crime and speech1
After property? The Haitian Revolution, racial capitalism, and the foundation for a universal right to freedom from enslavement1
Genuine commitment or search for prestige? Italy’s ambiguous foreign policy discourse on human rights1
Home country regulates outbound investment to fulfill human rights obligations-taking China as an example1
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