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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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‘Please, get me called to The Hague!’ The international criminal court as history’s soapbox36
The interior castle of conscience vs. new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnology33
Refusing reconciliation with settler colonialism: wider lessons from the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission27
Framing climate remedies in European human rights law: It is all about trust – in European democracies20
Tracing the legal journey of petitions in the Uttarakhand High Court that became springboards for rights of rivers and nature in India19
Moving lubunya in the age of rights: activist negotiations of lexical queerness and human rights17
The child’s right to freedom of expression in Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara14
One-dimensional law: a critique of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment13
Diaspora transnationalism and transitional justice: theorising the politics of engagement12
Respatialising the global imaginary of gay rights: resisting Africana epistemicide and forging Solidaristic Imaginaries12
Political community disputes of indigenous women from Puno during the protests in opposition to the Boluarte Government in Peru12
Safeguarding the rights of wrongly separated families as a result of disappearances12
Filling statutory gaps: judicial lawmaking and its preventive function at the international criminal court12
Not fit for purpose: the limits of the UN guiding principles on business and human rights for governing artificial intelligence in the Global South11
Protection of privacy in Bangladesh: issues, challenges and way forward11
A tale of two sovereigns: the responsibility to protect and the competing notions of responsible sovereignty11
The ‘Human Right to Science’ qua right to participate in science10
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
From New York to Geneva: advancing a new international human rights convention for older persons10
Exploring evolving attitudes towards school violence at the European Court of Human Rights9
Repoliticising indigenous participation: FPIC protocols in Canada and Brazil9
On the concepts of human security, dignity and vulnerability: understanding the mechanisms of being ‘at risk’9
Living in uncertainty: the dilemma of internally displaced persons seeking durable solutions in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia9
Activist allyship, unspoken dilemma: deconstructing the tension between reproductive autonomy and disability justice8
The West Papuan liberation movement, Indonesian settler colonialism and Western imperialism from an international solidarity perspective8
Defining terrorism in the UK and the proscription of Palestine Action: a critical legal assessment7
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
Universal human rights instruments and digital literacy of older persons6
Genocide in the Spanish Civil War? Francoist repression in the light of international law6
Sexual harassment in rural workplaces in India and the human rights discourse: a case study of select Hindi films6
Intersectional challenges in post-trafficking reintegration of survivor women of trafficking6
Measuring human rights? Vernacularisation and paradoxes of measurement in child poverty estimation6
Human rights through the kaleidoscope: the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review6
Internet access as a human right: insights from the empirical analysis of the UN international human rights framework5
Justice for atrocities: dialogues and encounters between Latin America and Europe. Introduction to the special issue5
Shifting sands: the future of children’s involvement in peace processes5
Forest moralities, kindred knowledge and Sacha Runakuna : Kawsak Sacha as law5
The role of the European Union’s securitisation policies in exacerbating the intersectional vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers5
Introduction5
Protecting the right to science in multilateral environmental agreements addressing chemicals and plastics pollution5
Resurgent totalitarianism, charismatic dictatorship, and the rise of socio-political extremism in the age of globalisation and multiculturalism: an escalating human rights crisis5
The road (not) taken: implications of health-focused arguments for rights-based climate change litigation in Europe4
Mapping corporate obligations towards the Rule of Law under international law4
The violence of return: partition migration and human rights violations in Marichjhapi4
Human rights in international law, state responsibilities and accountability mechanisms: a case study of Iran4
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
State obligation and landmines: human rights of the disabled in the Islamic Republic of Iran4
Between Scylla and Charybdis: the implications of the human right to science for regulating the harms and benefits of environmental science and technology4
An Histoire Juridique Commune? Historiographical frames in European and Inter-American human rights narratives4
Efficiency and exclusion? Technology and vulnerability at the European Court of Human Rights4
Subsidiarity in the ECHR: an empty promise for local authorities?4
Climate displacement and human rights: rectifying the current legal protection lacuna through international and regional solutions4
Decolonising expert evidence in international law? Cultural and environmental rights’ litigation before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights4
Innovating in uncharted terrain: on interpretation and normative legitimacy in the CESCR’s General Comment No. 25 on the right to science4
In the best interest of the child: a study on unaccompanied migrant children at the gateway to Spain4
Admitting but not apologising: the Indonesian government’s confrontation with the 1965–1966 genocide4
An examination of anti-personnel autonomous technology in weapons systems from the perspective of the right to life during an armed conflict4
‘Male circumcision’ and ‘female genital mutilation’: why parents choose the procedures and the case for gender bias in medical nomenclature4
Indigenous land disputes at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights 1991–2020: assessing thirty years of jurisprudence4
The role of Criminal Justice in dealing with past atrocities in the Spanish and Argentine transitions: common grounds, but different pathways4
Feeding human rights: Jimmy Carter’s food politics for World Hunger4
‘Making the office a global technological leader’: digital evidence and technological innovation at the ICC3
Adaptation of global gender norms in the practices of international humanitarian organisations: A comparative analysis of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the I3
Impact of clientelism on the rights of children in residential care: Cambodia and Myanmar3
 … 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 legal architecture of the right to food: normative foundations and differentiated functions of its four-fold interpretation3
Exploring the role of regulation in urban citizenship practices: looking at Swiss and Turkish cities3
Humans matter too: a misanthropic misunderstanding of ecocentrism is derailing the ecocide debate3
Economic roots of media freedom: is income inequality a matter?3
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
Anticipation and diplomacy (with)in science: activating the right to science for science diplomacy3
Surviving the pandemic: the livelihood struggles of undocumented Chinese immigrants in the UK3
Differential personality predictors and contextuality in human rights support: how the Big-Five personality model predicts support for human rights in a post-ethnic conflict society3
Anti-trafficking or anti-migrant: rethinking the Philippine state’s role in global bordering architecture3
Adaptation of global gender norms in the strategies, policies, and guidelines of international humanitarian organisations: a comparative analysis of the International Rescue Committee and the Internat3
Between profits and people: a critical legal and criminological analysis of de facto ecocide in Jamaica's bauxite sector3
‘I know about something called human rights’: claiming refugee rights through protest at UNHCR Beirut3
Correction3
The prevalence of identity among religious minorities in different human rights environments3
Rethinking the right to freedom of thought: on drug policy, neurotechnology, and the case for cognitive liberty2
A new historical bloc and the political economy of international criminal prosecutions at the international criminal court2
Locating the stigmatisation of children born of wartime rape on a continuum of violence2
The social public interest in China's employment anti-discrimination laws and its realisation paths2
Constitutional review of criminal norms: does Indonesia need judicial activism?2
‘Is human rights protection entering the fast lane?’ – deficiencies in, and prospects of China’s autonomous driving legislation2
How human rights implementation by local authorities dealing with Traveller evictions could be improved – Exploring strategies through case study analysis in a Belgian municipality2
Sentencing ecocide: history, doctrine, theory2
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
Correction2
Should a register be kept of conscientious objectors to euthanasia in Spain?2
The victimhood and reparative needs of Myanmar's Rohingya: towards effective reparations in international law2
Weaving Indigenous temporalities in energy transitions: reflections from the cracks2
From ‘raise the age’ to ‘raise the awareness’: how knowledge affects public opinion of the minimum age of criminal responsibility in Western Australia2
More than documenting LGBTQ + narratives: a human rights activists’ perspective from Colombia’s truth commission2
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
Reaching the limit: access to remedy through nonjudicial mechanisms for victims of business-related human rights abuses2
Human rights practices and college students’ attitudes towards the death penalty in China2
Rethinking rights of nature through climate advisory proceedings2
Civil society and access to justice: challenges of seeking remedy in the global fight against spyware2
In the break (of rights and representation): sociality beyond the non/human subject2
Cultural human rights as new foundations for interculturalist policies: a rights-based approach from Québec*2
Comparing universal jurisdiction in Europe and in Latin America: a vehicle for international justice or for colonial reckoning?2
ECtHR jurisprudence amid political shifts: rolling back the protection against pushbacks2
Prioritising human rights principles in synthetic biology innovation and patenting2
A descriptive mixed-method study of legislation development pertaining to human rights with a focus on human trafficking in GCC countries2
Ecocide, environmental harm and framework integration at the International Criminal Court2
Re-emphasizing the individual components of ‘child, early, and forced marriage’2
Torture manual: the military and the policing of Mexico’s war on drugs2
Closing the circle of implementation: the sustainable development goals, universal periodic review, and the rights-based approach to development2
The duplication of the subject ‘people’ in the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: from colonial people to (Indigenous) non-state people2
Anticipatory duties under the human right to science and international biomedical law2
Challenging the rhetoric of ‘showbiz jobs’: human rights and feminist perspectives on trafficked women from Lahore, Pakistan, to the UAE2
Discrimination against persons of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities as a statelessness-generating factor?2
The genie of autonomy: steering mandatory mediation within human-rights limits1
Roots of destruction: exploring the genocide-ecocide nexus through the destruction of olive trees in occupied Palestine and Rojava1
Deepfakes, big tech, and human rights challenges: examining the technology from a feminist legal lens1
Meaningful acknowledgement: how to evaluate acknowledgement in transitional justice interactions using deliberative reciprocity?1
At-risk scholars in Europe: ‘academic humanitarianism’ in the name of science ‘here’ as opposed to the risk ‘there’1
Autonomous weapon systems and international criminal justice: is deterrence still possible?1
Health, privacy and liberty: a call for digital governance during (and after) the pandemic1
Europe at a crossroads: transgender rights, judicial reticence, and the specter of democratic backsliding1
Applicability of the right to free elections clause of the ECHR to presidential elections: the case of Turkey's new presidential system1
Naming and praising states? MENA women’s NGO rhetoric at the universal periodic review1
Silencing the ‘Guapinol Eight’: abuse of the Honduran criminal justice system to unjustly criminalise and punish human rights defenders1
The impact of hotel accommodation on asylum seekers’ mental health: a mixed methods study1
Suriname’s offshore oil ambitions: navigating human rights, climate change commitments and the risk of ecocide1
Beyond liberal justice? Decolonising Colombian transitional justice through victims’ participation and indigenous rights1
The engagement to accountability continuum: how humanitarian and human rights organisations address human insecurity in North Korea1
Human rights in the context of youth policy: integration of values and modern challenges1
Beyond sword and shield: the UN human rights system and criminal law1
Displacing the displaced: the response to the protracted precarious situation of Syrian refugees in Türkiye during the Covid-19 pandemic1
The fragile relationship between the amended International Health Regulations and human rights law1
Psychosocial justice and the transformative turn in transitional justice1
‘Human, all too human’: the anthropocentricisation of ecocide1
Decolonising human rights and global health1
Punishing or regulating? US media attention to hate crime and speech1
Political, physical, and cultural techniques of genocide against the Rohingyas of Myanmar1
Revisiting universal jurisdiction through the victim’s right to an effective remedy: a victim-centred approach under the Convention against Torture1
A response to decentralised governance of human rights: a Children's Rights Approach in Wales1
Daily communication as cultural practices: Afghan women’s online and offline resistance under Taliban rule1
How to think about the instrumental politics of mass rape: a critical appraisal of feminist approaches1
The role of international law in promoting and enforcing the rights of persons with disabilities1
From human rights documentation towards arts-based interventions: NGO collaborations with artists and the reimagining of human rights1
Corporations and positive duties to fulfil socio-economic rights: developing international human rights law1
Research on Chinese judicial human rights discourse: a statistical analysis based on judicial judgement documents, 2004–20201
Codifying global conscience: gender equality – a norm of jus cogens1
The status of women under Taliban rule in Afghanistan: education & healthcare1
Regulating surveillance during occupation through core data protection principles1
Muddy waters: on the problematic political ecology of the Atrato ruling, Colombia1
A review of the legitimacy of FIFA’s participation in Qatar’s human rights governance1
Protecting vulnerable groups in Europe: highlights from recent case law of the European Court of Human Rights1
Beyond legal personhood for the Whanganui River: collaboration and pluralism in implementing the Te Awa Tupua Act1
Genuine commitment or search for prestige? Italy’s ambiguous foreign policy discourse on human rights1
‘After rights’ is friendship: on abandonment, obligation and the stranger1
From environmental war crimes to ecocide: lessons from Colombia’s transitional Justice1
The ping-pong strategy: confronting atrocities from the exile1
A contextual analysis of the evolution of transitional justice: the story of Taiwan1
A continuum of violence from the forcibly disappeared to their women next of kin: the case of Sri Lanka1
When states withdraw: the ECHR, human rights, and the TNSE dilemma1
Applying critical pedagogies to human rights education1
From concern to condemnation: analysing the European parliament’s escalating human rights advocacy toward Iran1
A challenge for ecocide scholarship: engaging with science, survival, and the scope of criminal law1
Managing a rogue state: the case of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan1
Dispossessive rights: coloniality and trans-exclusion in zero-sum politics0
Sovereignty cost, terrorism and Türkiye’s reluctance to join the International Criminal Court (ICC)0
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
Navigating the nexus: the rule of law in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) advancements0
López Obrador’s hyper-presidentialism: populism and autocratic legalism defying the Supreme Court and the National Electoral Institute0
Beyond environmental harm: redefining ecocide to address global south realities through Ghana’s illegal mining crisis0
Amnesty as a tool in the deradicalisation of Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria: a threat to national security0
Introduction to the special issue on academic freedom and internationalisation0
Indigenous rights and ontological plurality in the institutional arrangements for the Waikato and Waipā Rivers in Aotearoa0
National cybersecurity policy and citizens’ rights in Nigeria0
Mattering in the Anthropocene: the ECtHR’s domesticating framing of climate change0
Model code of conduct: protection of academic freedom and the academic community in the context of the internationalisation of the UK HE sector0
The urban evolution of the right to health0
The right to freedom of thought: an interdisciplinary analysis of the UN special rapporteur’s report on freedom of thought0
Cultivating relational rights: transborder sociality, repossession, and resistance in Salvadoran collectivist movements0
Refusing the present to affirm the unknown future: after LGBTIQ rights in global queer politics0
National human rights institutions’ role in the realisation of the European Convention on Human Rights: towards continuous and seamless engagement in all phases of realisation0
What makes transitional justice possible? An analysis of the Spanish case0
From the ground up: local turn, citizenry voice, and agency in Zimbabwe’s national peace and reconciliation process0
African human-rights-based approach to address all forms of abuse of older persons in Nigeria0
Protection for whom? Impact of international humanitarian regulations and forced child recruitment0
Rights in the collaboration between the World Bank and the United Nations in the areas of investment in agriculture, rural development and food systems0
The human rights archival gap: ethno-archiving the silencing of radical activism and Israel’s violence against Palestinian women0
Human rights violations and environmental injustice in the Latin American mining sector: current dynamics and challenges0
The right to protest0
Trauma, identity, and healing: families’ experiences with DNA-based reunification in post-war El Salvador0
The right to be, to feel and to exist: Indigenous lawyers and strategic litigation over Indigenous territories in Guatemala0
Social integration of migrants in Europe as a limitation to the right to freedom of religion or belief0
Justice, rights-politics, and the coloniality of knowledge production: critical lessons from Rojava and the Jineolojî movement towards liberating life0
Revelation without reparation: evaluating the Oklahoma commission to study the Tulsa Race Riot of 19210
Identifying and regulating human rights defenders (HRDs)0
Nông dân being wronged: fighting for the world in a place0
Guarantees of non-repetition: the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, legislatures, and the long road to structural reparations in Latin America0
To Geneva and back: externalising anti-LGBT hate crime as a policy issue0
Beyond the turn to human rights: a call for an intersectional climate justice approach0
Why neoliberal ideology, privatisation, and other challenges make a reframing of the right to education in international law necessary0
Evolving rights to (and of) water in Chile: a case for relationship-based water law and governance0
Indigenous judges at the special jurisdiction for peace: reimagining the role of transitional justice judges0
Rights of nature and rivers in Ecuador’s Constitutional Court0
Protecting fundamental values through the global human rights sanction regime: China's challenges to the EU's normative power0
Forging new habits: critical drugs scholarship as an otherwise to rights0
Do human rights frameworks identify AI’s problems? The limits of a burgeoning methodology for AI problem assessment0
After truth, after shame … after information politics? Rethinking the epistemologies of human rights in the digital-authoritarian conjuncture0
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
Do local authorities take human rights seriously? Lessons from the French case0
Anticipation under the human right to science and under other social and cultural rights0
Safeguarding the child’s right to privacy and data protection in the European Union and China: a tale of state duties and business responsibilities0
Beyond data privacy: re-anchoring mental integrity in international human rights law for the age of AI-driven neurotechnology0
Mapping Arabic human rights discourse: a thematic review0
The abolition of death penalty and crime control in Nigeria0
After rights? Politics, ethics, aesthetics: an introduction0
Towards a spectral forensics: spirits as epistemic resources in responses to the dead and missing0
The right to a healthy environment in African human rights law0
Guaranteeing the rights of children and adolescents in Brazilian foster care institutions0
Anticipatory co-governance for human rights to sciences across knowledge systems0
Anti-imperial epistemic justice and re-making rights and justice ‘after rights’0
Public perception of transitional justice in Angola: examining CIVICOP's Outreach efforts and its perceived legitimacy0
Conceptualising the transformative justice potential of peace processes0
Assessing the International Criminal Court’s response to genocide: a reference to the case of Al-Bashir0
Rethinking non-retroactivity: mala in se crimes and the ethics of genocide prosecution0
The wonderful adventures of childhood in the digital era: towards the realisation of the right of the child to participate in cultural and artistic life0
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
The UN voluntary compact and peacekeeping abuse: assessing a soft law solution for sexual exploitation and abuse0
Good international citizenship and the protection of internally displaced persons: examining Kenya’s law and policy0
Rights in the mandate and work of international organisations0
Defending ancestral lands: the role of internal mechanisms in indigenous mobilisation against neo-extractivism0
Narratives of restricted academic freedom: students’ experiences in pre-2020 Belarus between undeveloped capabilities and unrecognised membership0
Defining ecocide: a framework for centring the African experience0
Leadership responsibility in non-state criminal organisations. The rediscovery of indirect perpetration through an organisation by Latin American courts and the ICC0
A critical appraisal of the effectiveness of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights0
The role of Turkish administrative courts in developing jurisprudence on refugee rights: review of the judgments of the administrative courts from 2014 to 20210
Monitoring, governmental data access and the invocation of Article 8 ECHR by legal persons0
Citizens as lawmakers: legal innovation and the competing moralities of environmental juridification0
Masculinities and transitional justice: a feminist reflection on Colombia’s truth commission final report0
Neoliberal rationality and the rhetoric of sacrifice in the construction of proportionality discourse: a case-study from the European Court of Human Rights0
The work of art, beside and beyond rights0
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
COVID-19 quarantine in Taiwan: from ‘success story’ to perilous deprivation of liberty0
A conventional right to assistance in dying: finding a legal compromise0
Moving beyond binary identities in transitional justice: recognising the complexity of agency in agonistic spaces0
Reimagining transitional justice for a less violent, more inclusive world0
Reason enough to hope? The citational practices and disorienting subjects that make menstruation a matter of human rights0
Presuming parentage in lesbian – as in heterosexual – couples? Equal treatment claims before the European Court of Human Rights: Boeckel and Gessner-Boeckel v Germany 0
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