OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Human Rights is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
US Congress and partisanship on Yemen among Democrats from Obama to Trump	31
Justice from below: corporate accountability in Argentina	31
The road (not) taken: implications of health-focused arguments for rights-based climate change litigation in Europe	22
Foreign concerns: the impact of international investment law on the ethnic-based land restitution programme in Colombia	18
Investigating across borders: the right to the truth in an European context	17
Breach of Afghanistan’s international obligations using the due diligence standard to combat violence against women	17
Rights in the mandate and work of international organisations	14
Pathways to remedy for corporate human rights abuse: a qualitative comparative analysis of the institutional design of the OECD national contact points	12
Closing the circle of implementation: the sustainable development goals, universal periodic review, and the rights-based approach to development	10
Refusing reconciliation with settler colonialism: wider lessons from the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission	10
Deep deception: the story of the spycop network, by the women who uncovered the shocking truth	10
Re-emphasizing the individual components of ‘child, early, and forced marriage’	8
The interior castle of conscience vs. new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnology	8
Protecting the right to housing in the era of financialisation: four principles for urban renewal	8
Subsidiarity in the ECHR: an empty promise for local authorities?	7
To intervene or not to intervene: intervention before the court of justice of the european union in environmental and migration law	7
Playing through crisis: lessons from COVID-19 on play as a fundamental right of the child	6
Restricting access to employment as a human rights violation: a case study of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon	6
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 Zimbabwe	6
An Histoire Juridique Commune? Historiographical frames in European and Inter-American human rights narratives	6
Bill of rights for the 21st century: some lessons from the Internet Bill of Rights movement	6
The ECHR in action: its applicability and relevance for arbitration	6
From the rule of law to a rule of rights	6
Tracing the legal journey of petitions in the Uttarakhand High Court that became springboards for rights of rivers and nature in India	5
Do local authorities take human rights seriously? Lessons from the French case	5

‘Please, get me called to The Hague!’ The international criminal court as history’s soapbox	5
The global implementation of UNDRIP: a thematic review	5
Re-theorising the genocide–ecocide nexus: Raphael Lemkin and ecocide in the Amazon	5
(De-)judicialization of politics in the era of populism: lessons from Central and Eastern Europe	5
Towards an evaluation of the nexus between unfettered, unregulated capitalism, donor aid and debt relief inconsistencies, and the problem of post-election violence in Kenya	5
Resilience in the context of conflict-related sexual violence: children as protective resources and wider implications	4
How human rights implementation by local authorities dealing with Traveller evictions could be improved – Exploring strategies through case study analysis in a Belgian municipality	4
Ecocide, environmental harm and framework integration at the International Criminal Court	4
Contending with identity and minority rights in transitional justice: the case study of Sri Lanka	4
#Papuanlivesmatter: how a narrative of racism has elevated West Papua’s decolonisation movement	4
‘Lost in translation’: United Nations commentaries on gender stereotypes to Muslim countries	4
Neurotechnologies and human rights: restating and reaffirming the multi-layered protection of the person	4
Making the connections: resource extraction, prostitution, poverty, climate change, and human rights	4
‘Male circumcision’ and ‘female genital mutilation’: why parents choose the procedures and the case for gender bias in medical nomenclature	4
The Taliban and women's human rights in Afghanistan: the way forward	4
Heroes and hierarchies: the celebration and censure of victimhood in transitional justice	4
Correction	4
Through selective activism towards greater resilience: the Czech Constitutional Court's interventions into high politics in the age of populism	4
Legal identity in the sustainable development agenda: actors, perspectives and trends in an emerging field of research	4
Do human rights frameworks identify AI’s problems? The limits of a burgeoning methodology for AI problem assessment	4
From shelter to the streets: the feminine face of homelessness in contemporary democracies	4
A new historical bloc and the political economy of international criminal prosecutions at the international criminal court	4
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 bloc	4
Echoes from the woods: at the crossroads of forest struggles and human rights in postcolonial India	3
Good better best? Human rights impact assessment in crisis lawmaking	3
From human rights documentation towards arts-based interventions: NGO collaborations with artists and the reimagining of human rights	3
Between a rock and a hard place: (un)balancing the public health interventions and human rights protection in the COVID 19 era in South Africa	3
Constitutional review of criminal norms: does Indonesia need judicial activism?	3
Access to health care for Venezuelan irregular migrants in Colombia: between constitutional adjudication and human rights law	3
Exacerbating, illuminating and hiding rights issues: COVID-19 and children in conflict with the law	3
Limitation of rights in the times of the COVID-19 pandemic: a view from Kosovo’s Constitutional Court’s ‘shaky’ jurisprudence	3
Climate displacement and human rights: rectifying the current legal protection lacuna through international and regional solutions	3
The United Nations Human Rights Council at 16: a creature of compromise or a compromised creature?	3
Mobilising and constraining: the dynamics of human rights discourse in two Mexican social movements	3
Regulating transnational corporations at the United Nations – the negotiations of a treaty on business and human rights	3
Human rights protection under the ICCPR: when can and should States derogate? A critical analysis in the context of New Zealand’s COVID-19 response	3
Norms of protection in IR: humanitarian wars and the ironic creation of pre-Westphalian states	3
Leadership responsibility in non-state criminal organisations. The rediscovery of indirect perpetration through an organisation by Latin American courts and the ICC	2
Opportunistic oppression: U.S. migration restrictions and public health policy during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Local authorities at the European Court of Human Rights	2
Subnational authorities and human rights in Europe	2
State obligation and landmines: human rights of the disabled in the Islamic Republic of Iran	2
Search the landfill: obligation of the Canadian Government to bring stolen sisters home	2
The role of Turkish administrative courts in developing jurisprudence on refugee rights: review of the judgments of the administrative courts from 2014 to 2021	2
Citizens as lawmakers: legal innovation and the competing moralities of environmental juridification	2
Between Scylla and Charybdis: the implications of the human right to science for regulating the harms and benefits of environmental science and technology	2
After property? The Haitian Revolution, racial capitalism, and the foundation for a universal right to freedom from enslavement	2
The role of Criminal Justice in dealing with past atrocities in the Spanish and Argentine transitions: common grounds, but different pathways	2
Look before you leap: states’ prevention and anticipation duties under the right to science	2
The challenge of ‘COVID-19 free’ Australia: international travel restrictions and stranded citizens	2

From ‘raise the age’ to ‘raise the awareness’: how knowledge affects public opinion of the minimum age of criminal responsibility in Western Australia	2
The role of institutional architecture in the reception of refugees in South Africa	2
A descriptive mixed-method study of legislation development pertaining to human rights with a focus on human trafficking in GCC countries	2
A tale of two sovereigns: the responsibility to protect and the competing notions of responsible sovereignty	2
One-dimensional law: a critique of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment	2
Indigenous rights and ontological plurality in the institutional arrangements for the Waikato and Waipā Rivers in Aotearoa	2
Innovating in uncharted terrain: on interpretation and normative legitimacy in the CESCR’s General Comment No. 25 on the right to science	2
Take me to the River: have riverine rights enhanced community participation in environmental governance within the Atrato River basin?	2
Anticipation and diplomacy (with)in science: activating the right to science for science diplomacy	2
Anticipation under the human right to science (HRS): sketching the public institutional framework. The example of scientific responses to the appearance of SARS-CoV-2	2
‘I know about something called human rights’: claiming refugee rights through protest at UNHCR Beirut	2
The role of international law in promoting and enforcing the rights of persons with disabilities	2
Expanding into the local level: selective and maximalist models of human rights implementation in Denmark and Sweden	2
Human rights in international law, state responsibilities and accountability mechanisms: a case study of Iran	2
Impunity in cases of serious human rights violations: three relevant aspects of contention in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	2
Home country regulates outbound investment to fulfill human rights obligations-taking China as an example	2
From Paris to Venice: the international standard of the ombudsman’s independence revisited	2