International Journal of Human Rights

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Human Rights is 0. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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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 Zimbabwe36
Refusing reconciliation with settler colonialism: wider lessons from the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission35
‘Please, get me called to The Hague!’ The international criminal court as history’s soapbox33
Tracing the legal journey of petitions in the Uttarakhand High Court that became springboards for rights of rivers and nature in India20
The interior castle of conscience vs. new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnology18
Mobilising and constraining: the dynamics of human rights discourse in two Mexican social movements16
One-dimensional law: a critique of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment13
A tale of two sovereigns: the responsibility to protect and the competing notions of responsible sovereignty13
The child’s right to freedom of expression in Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara12
Protection of privacy in Bangladesh: issues, challenges and way forward10
Good better best? Human rights impact assessment in crisis lawmaking10
Repoliticising indigenous participation: FPIC protocols in Canada and Brazil9
The ‘Human Right to Science’ qua right to participate in science9
From liberal to conservative? The role of Hong Kong Court of final appeal in safeguarding fundamental rights under China's One Country Two Systems policy9
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
Intersectional challenges in post-trafficking reintegration of survivor women of trafficking7
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
Sexual harassment in rural workplaces in India and the human rights discourse: a case study of select Hindi films7
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
Beyond the familiar challenges for children and young people’s participation rights: the potential of activism7
Universal human rights instruments and digital literacy of older persons7
Public mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: impacts on children's rights7
Forest moralities, kindred knowledge and Sacha Runakuna : Kawsak Sacha as law6
Localised medical moralities: organ trafficking and Israeli medical professionals6
Introduction6
Measuring human rights? Vernacularisation and paradoxes of measurement in child poverty estimation6
Resurgent totalitarianism, charismatic dictatorship, and the rise of socio-political extremism in the age of globalisation and multiculturalism: an escalating human rights crisis6
The role of the European Union’s securitisation policies in exacerbating the intersectional vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers6
From the rule of law to a rule of rights5
Re-theorising the genocide–ecocide nexus: Raphael Lemkin and ecocide in the Amazon5
Justice from below: corporate accountability in Argentina5
An Histoire Juridique Commune? Historiographical frames in European and Inter-American human rights narratives5
Foreign concerns: the impact of international investment law on the ethnic-based land restitution programme in Colombia5
Justice for atrocities: dialogues and encounters between Latin America and Europe. Introduction to the special issue5
Resource extraction as a tool of racism in West Papua5
Admitting but not apologising: the Indonesian government’s confrontation with the 1965–1966 genocide5
The road (not) taken: implications of health-focused arguments for rights-based climate change litigation in Europe4
Bill of rights for the 21st century: some lessons from the Internet Bill of Rights movement4
Anticipation and diplomacy (with)in science: activating the right to science for science diplomacy4
Human rights in international law, state responsibilities and accountability mechanisms: a case study of Iran4
Climate displacement and human rights: rectifying the current legal protection lacuna through international and regional solutions4
Subsidiarity in the ECHR: an empty promise for local authorities?4
Playing through crisis: lessons from COVID-19 on play as a fundamental right of the child4
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
Between Scylla and Charybdis: the implications of the human right to science for regulating the harms and benefits of environmental science and technology4
In the best interest of the child: a study on unaccompanied migrant children at the gateway to Spain4
‘Male circumcision’ and ‘female genital mutilation’: why parents choose the procedures and the case for gender bias in medical nomenclature4
Regulating transnational corporations at the United Nations – the negotiations of a treaty on business and human rights4
State obligation and landmines: human rights of the disabled in the Islamic Republic of Iran4
Expanding into the local level: selective and maximalist models of human rights implementation in Denmark and Sweden4
Innovating in uncharted terrain: on interpretation and normative legitimacy in the CESCR’s General Comment No. 25 on the right to science3
Correction3
 … a substantial part of the trauma was caused by an accidental fall …  ’: liminal spaces and post-apartheid accountability in South Africa3
Genocide in Palestine: Gaza as a case study3
Pandemic and community’s sense of justice through suo motu in India3
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and rights protection: revisionist or just another kid on the block?3
Economic roots of media freedom: is income inequality a matter?3
Potential tension between children’s engagement in work and the rights of the child: resolving the conflict using margin of appreciation doctrine3
Exploring the role of regulation in urban citizenship practices: looking at Swiss and Turkish cities3
The role of Criminal Justice in dealing with past atrocities in the Spanish and Argentine transitions: common grounds, but different pathways3
Academic freedom between past and present: the birth of one-dimensional academia in Turkey3
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
Rethinking the right to freedom of thought: on drug policy, neurotechnology, and the case for cognitive liberty3
Global data on the freedom indispensable for scientific research: towards a reconciliation of academic reputation and academic freedom3
‘I know about something called human rights’: claiming refugee rights through protest at UNHCR Beirut3
Surviving the pandemic: the livelihood struggles of undocumented Chinese immigrants in the UK3
‘Human rights’ in judicial judgement of China3
The prevalence of identity among religious minorities in different human rights environments3
Correction3
Cultural human rights as new foundations for interculturalist policies: a rights-based approach from Québec*3
Impact of clientelism on the rights of children in residential care: Cambodia and Myanmar3
A new historical bloc and the political economy of international criminal prosecutions at the international criminal court2
From ‘raise the age’ to ‘raise the awareness’: how knowledge affects public opinion of the minimum age of criminal responsibility in Western Australia2
#Papuanlivesmatter: how a narrative of racism has elevated West Papua’s decolonisation movement2
Norms of protection in IR: humanitarian wars and the ironic creation of pre-Westphalian states2
Reaching the limit: access to remedy through nonjudicial mechanisms for victims of business-related human rights abuses2
Comparing universal jurisdiction in Europe and in Latin America: a vehicle for international justice or for colonial reckoning?2
Anticipatory duties under the human right to science and international biomedical law2
Re-emphasizing the individual components of ‘child, early, and forced marriage’2
Closing the circle of implementation: the sustainable development goals, universal periodic review, and the rights-based approach to development2
Limitation of rights in the times of the COVID-19 pandemic: a view from Kosovo’s Constitutional Court’s ‘shaky’ jurisprudence2
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
Protecting the right to housing in the era of financialisation: four principles for urban renewal2
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
Should a register be kept of conscientious objectors to euthanasia in Spain?2
Torture manual: the military and the policing of Mexico’s war on drugs2
Human rights practices and college students’ attitudes towards the death penalty in China2
A descriptive mixed-method study of legislation development pertaining to human rights with a focus on human trafficking in GCC countries2
The social public interest in China's employment anti-discrimination laws and its realisation paths2
Ecocide, environmental harm and framework integration at the International Criminal Court2
How human rights implementation by local authorities dealing with Traveller evictions could be improved – Exploring strategies through case study analysis in a Belgian municipality2
More than documenting LGBTQ + narratives: a human rights activists’ perspective from Colombia’s truth commission2
In the break (of rights and representation): sociality beyond the non/human subject2
Discrimination against persons of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities as a statelessness-generating factor?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
The engagement to accountability continuum: how humanitarian and human rights organisations address human insecurity in North Korea1
How to think about the instrumental politics of mass rape: a critical appraisal of feminist approaches1
A review of the legitimacy of FIFA’s participation in Qatar’s human rights governance1
Corporations and positive duties to fulfil socio-economic rights: developing international human rights law1
Between a rock and a hard place: academic freedom in globalising Chinese universities1
Is academic freedom at risk from internationalisation? Results from a 2020 survey of UK social scientists1
Beyond liberal justice? Decolonising Colombian transitional justice through victims’ participation and indigenous rights1
Health, privacy and liberty: a call for digital governance during (and after) the pandemic1
From human rights documentation towards arts-based interventions: NGO collaborations with artists and the reimagining of human rights1
A contextual analysis of the evolution of transitional justice: the story of Taiwan1
Reviewing the impact of COVID-19 on children’s rights to, in and through education1
The right to healthcare during the covid-19 pandemic under the European Convention on human rights1
The impact of hotel accommodation on asylum seekers’ mental health: a mixed methods study1
Civil resistance campaign for the Free Papua Movement and student protests in 2019 in Surabaya, Indonesia1
Genuine commitment or search for prestige? Italy’s ambiguous foreign policy discourse on human rights1
The ping-pong strategy: confronting atrocities from the exile1
Constitutional bills of rights and democratic transformation in post-authoritarian scenarios1
A response to decentralised governance of human rights: a Children's Rights Approach in Wales1
Psychosocial justice and the transformative turn in transitional justice1
Environmental protection through European and African human rights frameworks1
Entrenching children's participation through UNCRC Incorporation in Scotland1
Locating the stigmatisation of children born of wartime rape on a continuum of violence1
The role of international law in promoting and enforcing the rights of persons with disabilities1
Protecting vulnerable groups in Europe: highlights from recent case law of the European Court of Human Rights1
Children’s human rights in the contexts of domestic abuse and COVID-191
A human right to friendship? Dignity, autonomy, and social deprivation1
Political, physical, and cultural techniques of genocide against the Rohingyas of Myanmar1
‘After rights’ is friendship: on abandonment, obligation and the stranger1
Punishing or regulating? US media attention to hate crime and speech1
Abortion, same-sex marriage, and gender identity during the Pink Tide: Venezuela compared to Latin American trends1
At-risk scholars in Europe: ‘academic humanitarianism’ in the name of science ‘here’ as opposed to the risk ‘there’1
Applying critical pedagogies to human rights education1
Applicability of the right to free elections clause of the ECHR to presidential elections: the case of Turkey's new presidential system1
Silencing the ‘Guapinol Eight’: abuse of the Honduran criminal justice system to unjustly criminalise and punish human rights defenders1
Constitutional review of criminal norms: does Indonesia need judicial activism?1
Supporting academic freedom as a human right: challenges and solutions in academic publishing1
Displacing the displaced: the response to the protracted precarious situation of Syrian refugees in Türkiye during the Covid-19 pandemic1
Meaningful acknowledgement: how to evaluate acknowledgement in transitional justice interactions using deliberative reciprocity?1
Beyond legal personhood for the Whanganui River: collaboration and pluralism in implementing the Te Awa Tupua Act1
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) vis-à-vis amnesties and pardons: factors concerning or affecting the degree of ECtHR’s deference to states0
Safeguarding the child’s right to privacy and data protection in the European Union and China: a tale of state duties and business responsibilities0
Neoliberal rationality and the rhetoric of sacrifice in the construction of proportionality discourse: a case-study from the European Court of Human Rights0
Anticipation under the human right to science and under other social and cultural rights0
Moving beyond binary identities in transitional justice: recognising the complexity of agency in agonistic spaces0
Are women not enslaved in Brazil? A data-driven analysis of gender dynamics in Brazilian antislavery efforts0
The UN voluntary compact and peacekeeping abuse: assessing a soft law solution for sexual exploitation and abuse0
Human rights and care homes for older people: a typology of approaches from academic literature as a starting point for activist scholarship in human rights and institutional care0
Masculinities and transitional justice: a feminist reflection on Colombia’s truth commission final report0
The Ayotzinapa case (Mexico) and the role of the European Parliament as a moral tribune to promote human rights worldwide0
Forging new habits: critical drugs scholarship as an otherwise to rights0
Authoritarianism and marketisation in higher education:implications of China’s rise for cosmopolitan academic citizenship0
The right to protest0
Seriously ill migrants in European human rights: framing global inequalities0
Model code of conduct: protection of academic freedom and the academic community in the context of the internationalisation of the UK HE sector0
Leadership responsibility in non-state criminal organisations. The rediscovery of indirect perpetration through an organisation by Latin American courts and the ICC0
Conceptualising the transformative justice potential of peace processes0
Codifying the human right to science0
After truth, after shame … after information politics? Rethinking the epistemologies of human rights in the digital-authoritarian conjuncture0
Protection for whom? Impact of international humanitarian regulations and forced child recruitment0
Fraternity as a constitutional principle from the perspective of the Judiciary0
Narratives of restricted academic freedom: students’ experiences in pre-2020 Belarus between undeveloped capabilities and unrecognised membership0
Exploring the impacts of artificial intelligence on freedom of religion or belief online0
Protecting the protectors: redefining immunity protections for National Human Rights Institutions0
African human-rights-based approach to address all forms of abuse of older persons in Nigeria0
Do local authorities take human rights seriously? Lessons from the French case0
Learning from the past? How the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, civil society initiatives and survivor stories shape young Cambodians’ understanding of non-recurrence0
Children’s human rights under COVID-19: learning from children’s rights impact assessments0
The right to freedom of thought: an interdisciplinary analysis of the UN special rapporteur’s report on freedom of thought0
The concept of vulnerability and its relation to the concepts of inequality and discrimination – a review article0
COVID-19 quarantine in Taiwan: from ‘success story’ to perilous deprivation of liberty0
Reason enough to hope? The citational practices and disorienting subjects that make menstruation a matter of human rights0
The after rights of the Citizen of the UK and its Colonies: who is the subject of the rights of the citizen in Britain’s hostile environment?0
Beyond the turn to human rights: a call for an intersectional climate justice approach0
Access to health care for Venezuelan irregular migrants in Colombia: between constitutional adjudication and human rights law0
Identifying and regulating human rights defenders (HRDs)0
Nông dân being wronged: fighting for the world in a place0
‘We vowed by force, not by our heart’: men’s and women’s perspectives on forced marriage during the Cambodian genocide0
Assessing the International Criminal Court’s response to genocide: a reference to the case of Al-Bashir0
The work of art, beside and beyond rights0
Towards a spectral forensics: spirits as epistemic resources in responses to the dead and missing0
Amnesty as a tool in the deradicalisation of Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria: a threat to national security0
López Obrador’s hyper-presidentialism: populism and autocratic legalism defying the Supreme Court and the National Electoral Institute0
Through selective activism towards greater resilience: the Czech Constitutional Court's interventions into high politics in the age of populism0
Home country regulates outbound investment to fulfill human rights obligations-taking China as an example0
Two Chinese tales of human rights– Mainland China’s and Taiwan’s external human rights strategies0
Gastrocolonialism: the intersections of race, food, and development in West Papua0
Mitigating threats to academic freedom in Germany: the role of the state, universities, learned societies and China0
Domesticating human rights: restricting child marriage in Spain0
To Geneva and back: externalising anti-LGBT hate crime as a policy issue0
My corona: listening to children in corona times0
After rights? Politics, ethics, aesthetics: an introduction0
Obstacles to and opportunities for protecting human rights at the city level: The case of Madrid City Council Human Rights Plan (2017–2019)0
Citizens as lawmakers: legal innovation and the competing moralities of environmental juridification0
Rights in the mandate and work of international organisations0
Rights in the collaboration between the World Bank and the United Nations in the areas of investment in agriculture, rural development and food systems0
Privacy and the legalisation of mass surveillance: in search of a second wind for international human rights law0
The human rights archival gap: ethno-archiving the silencing of radical activism and Israel’s violence against Palestinian women0
A case for enhanced collaboration between experts and diplomats in the United Nations to enhance girls’ rights0
Do human rights frameworks identify AI’s problems? The limits of a burgeoning methodology for AI problem assessment0
Monitoring, governmental data access and the invocation of Article 8 ECHR by legal persons0
The trials of judge Garzón and the enforceability of decisions by human rights treaty bodies in Spain0
Social protection in the mandate of the IMF0
Protecting fundamental values through the global human rights sanction regime: China's challenges to the EU's normative power0
Reconceptualising socioeconomic rights: a case for care ethics0
Non-member migrants in spaceless zones: the spatial membership frame of embassies and consulates in the European Court of Human Rights0
Mattering in the Anthropocene: the ECtHR’s domesticating framing of climate change0
Access to justice for atrocities in the comparison of land-mark cases on state immunity in Brazil and Italy0
Review of human rights-based approaches to development: Empirical evidence from developing countries0
Guaranteeing the rights of children and adolescents in Brazilian foster care institutions0
Can Black males be subjects of human rights violations?0
How safe is the zone, and how voluntarily are the returnees? Turkey’s project for a ‘safe and dignified’ voluntary repatriation of Syrian refugees and the potential implementation of R2P on behalf of 0
Discrimination against dual nationals in the name of national security: a Finnish case study0
Justice, rights-politics, and the coloniality of knowledge production: critical lessons from Rojava and the Jineolojî movement towards liberating life0
Enhancing the use of Children's Rights Impact Assessments in ordinary and extraordinary times to understand the rights of children subject to statutory intervention in family life0
Why neoliberal ideology, privatisation, and other challenges make a reframing of the right to education in international law necessary0
Sovereignty cost, terrorism and Türkiye’s reluctance to join the International Criminal Court (ICC)0
A critical appraisal of the effectiveness of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights0
The Rohingya refugee crisis: analysing the international law implications of its environmental impacts on Bangladesh0
Emphasising socio-economic narratives of truth, justice and reparations in The Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen0
From human rights to human wrongs. How local government can negatively influence the situation of an individual. The case of Polish LGBT ideology-free zones*0
What makes transitional justice possible? An analysis of the Spanish case0
Reimagining human rights: a movement lawyering approach to human rights law practice0
Indigenous judges at the special jurisdiction for peace: reimagining the role of transitional justice judges0
Evolving rights to (and of) water in Chile: a case for relationship-based water law and governance0
Refusing the present to affirm the unknown future: after LGBTIQ rights in global queer politics0
Judicial creativity or judicial activism? The African court on human and peoples’ rights (ACTHPR) and the right to be informed of the right to bail0
Indigenous rights and ontological plurality in the institutional arrangements for the Waikato and Waipā Rivers in Aotearoa0
To intervene or not to intervene: intervention before the court of justice of the european union in environmental and migration law0
Anti-imperial epistemic justice and re-making rights and justice ‘after rights’0
‘Stop the boats’: deterrence of asylum seekers from the perspective of Australian medical professionals0
The role of Turkish administrative courts in developing jurisprudence on refugee rights: review of the judgments of the administrative courts from 2014 to 20210
Commitments to forced migrants in African peace agreements, 1990–20180
Children’s rights impact assessments in times of crisis: learning from COVID-190
Human rights protection under the ICCPR: when can and should States derogate? A critical analysis in the context of New Zealand’s COVID-19 response0
The extraordinary rendition network: illiberal security complexes and global governance0
The European far right and human rights language0
‘Lost in translation’: United Nations commentaries on gender stereotypes to Muslim countries0
Revelation without reparation: evaluating the Oklahoma commission to study the Tulsa Race Riot of 19210
The effect of war exposure on children; an exploration of conflict and post-conflict gendered experiences0
Introduction to the special issue on academic freedom and internationalisation0
Criminalisation of sex workers: rethinking the public order0
Trends in the qualification of asylum claims related to gender-based violence under international and European Law0
The right to be, to feel and to exist: Indigenous lawyers and strategic litigation over Indigenous territories in Guatemala0
Mapping Arabic human rights discourse: a thematic review0
The intercontinental dialogue on enforced disappearances: the case of massive disappearances during hostilities0
Authoritarian populism, conceptions of democracy, and the Hungarian Constitutional Court: the case of political participation0
Reparation for extractivist genocide: harm, responsibility and implications for a just transition0
Rights of nature and rivers in Ecuador’s Constitutional Court0
Is a right to health a means to protect public health? South Africa as a model for a communitarian interpretation of the right to health for the promotion of public health0
Internationalisation nexus in European higher education: forced or intended?0
Good international citizenship and the protection of internally displaced persons: examining Kenya’s law and policy0
Discriminatory practices in armed conflict contexts: exploring (parallel) proceedings under the European Convention on Human Rights and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of 0
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