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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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	40
‘Please, get me called to The Hague!’ The international criminal court as history’s soapbox	22
Refusing reconciliation with settler colonialism: wider lessons from the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission	22
The interior castle of conscience vs. new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnology	19
Tracing the legal journey of petitions in the Uttarakhand High Court that became springboards for rights of rivers and nature in India	18
Good better best? Human rights impact assessment in crisis lawmaking	17
One-dimensional law: a critique of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment	15
The child’s right to freedom of expression in Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara	15
Protection of privacy in Bangladesh: issues, challenges and way forward	14
Diaspora transnationalism and transitional justice: theorising the politics of engagement	12
A tale of two sovereigns: the responsibility to protect and the competing notions of responsible sovereignty	12
Respatialising the global imaginary of gay rights: resisting Africana epistemicide and forging Solidaristic Imaginaries	12
From liberal to conservative? The role of Hong Kong Court of final appeal in safeguarding fundamental rights under China's One Country Two Systems policy	10
Mobilising and constraining: the dynamics of human rights discourse in two Mexican social movements	10
On the concepts of human security, dignity and vulnerability: understanding the mechanisms of being ‘at risk’	9
Do codes of conduct really mean a change in corporate practices with regard to human rights? Evidence from the largest garment companies worldwide	8
Repoliticising indigenous participation: FPIC protocols in Canada and Brazil	8
The ‘Human Right to Science’ qua right to participate in science	8
The West Papuan liberation movement, Indonesian settler colonialism and Western imperialism from an international solidarity perspective	8
Universal human rights instruments and digital literacy of older persons	7
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 seekers	7
Public mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: impacts on children's rights	7
Admitting (to) the past: transitional justice in the European and Inter-American courts of human rights	7
Under the shadow of violence: are the Banyamulenge experiencing a slow genocide?	7

Intersectional challenges in post-trafficking reintegration of survivor women of trafficking	7
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 estimation	6
Introduction	6
Resurgent totalitarianism, charismatic dictatorship, and the rise of socio-political extremism in the age of globalisation and multiculturalism: an escalating human rights crisis	6
Localised medical moralities: organ trafficking and Israeli medical professionals	6
Sexual harassment in rural workplaces in India and the human rights discourse: a case study of select Hindi films	6
An Histoire Juridique Commune? Historiographical frames in European and Inter-American human rights narratives	5
Forest moralities, kindred knowledge and Sacha Runakuna : Kawsak Sacha as law	5
In the best interest of the child: a study on unaccompanied migrant children at the gateway to Spain	5
From the rule of law to a rule of rights	5
Admitting but not apologising: the Indonesian government’s confrontation with the 1965–1966 genocide	5
Resource extraction as a tool of racism in West Papua	5
Justice for atrocities: dialogues and encounters between Latin America and Europe. Introduction to the special issue	5
The road (not) taken: implications of health-focused arguments for rights-based climate change litigation in Europe	4
Subsidiarity in the ECHR: an empty promise for local authorities?	4
Justice from below: corporate accountability in Argentina	4
Regulating transnational corporations at the United Nations – the negotiations of a treaty on business and human rights	4
Feeding human rights: Jimmy Carter’s food politics for World Hunger	4
Correction	4
Anticipation and diplomacy (with)in science: activating the right to science for science diplomacy	4
Playing through crisis: lessons from COVID-19 on play as a fundamental right of the child	4
Foreign concerns: the impact of international investment law on the ethnic-based land restitution programme in Colombia	4
Climate displacement and human rights: rectifying the current legal protection lacuna through international and regional solutions	4
Expanding into the local level: selective and maximalist models of human rights implementation in Denmark and Sweden	4
Human rights in international law, state responsibilities and accountability mechanisms: a case study of Iran	4
‘I know about something called human rights’: claiming refugee rights through protest at UNHCR Beirut	4
State obligation and landmines: human rights of the disabled in the Islamic Republic of Iran	4
‘Male circumcision’ and ‘female genital mutilation’: why parents choose the procedures and the case for gender bias in medical nomenclature	4
Between Scylla and Charybdis: the implications of the human right to science for regulating the harms and benefits of environmental science and technology	4
Innovating in uncharted terrain: on interpretation and normative legitimacy in the CESCR’s General Comment No. 25 on the right to science	4
The role of Criminal Justice in dealing with past atrocities in the Spanish and Argentine transitions: common grounds, but different pathways	4
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 o	4
Genocide in Palestine: Gaza as a case study	3
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 environments	3
Academic freedom between past and present: the birth of one-dimensional academia in Turkey	3
Exploring the role of regulation in urban citizenship practices: looking at Swiss and Turkish cities	3
Global data on the freedom indispensable for scientific research: towards a reconciliation of academic reputation and academic freedom	3
Rethinking the right to freedom of thought: on drug policy, neurotechnology, and the case for cognitive liberty	3
Correction	3
‘ … a substantial part of the trauma was caused by an accidental fall … ’: liminal spaces and post-apartheid accountability in South Africa	3
‘Human rights’ in judicial judgement of China	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 refugee	3
Impact of clientelism on the rights of children in residential care: Cambodia and Myanmar	3
Pandemic and community’s sense of justice through suo motu in India	3
Cultural human rights as new foundations for interculturalist policies: a rights-based approach from Québec*	3
Surviving the pandemic: the livelihood struggles of undocumented Chinese immigrants in the UK	3
Potential tension between children’s engagement in work and the rights of the child: resolving the conflict using margin of appreciation doctrine	3

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and rights protection: revisionist or just another kid on the block?	3
A new historical bloc and the political economy of international criminal prosecutions at the international criminal court	2
Roots of destruction: exploring the genocide-ecocide nexus through the destruction of olive trees in occupied Palestine and Rojava	2
ECtHR jurisprudence amid political shifts: rolling back the protection against pushbacks	2
Constitutional review of criminal norms: does Indonesia need judicial activism?	2
Torture manual: the military and the policing of Mexico’s war on drugs	2
From human rights documentation towards arts-based interventions: NGO collaborations with artists and the reimagining of human rights	2
In the break (of rights and representation): sociality beyond the non/human subject	2
#Papuanlivesmatter: how a narrative of racism has elevated West Papua’s decolonisation movement	2
Re-emphasizing the individual components of ‘child, early, and forced marriage’	2
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 Kenya	2
How human rights implementation by local authorities dealing with Traveller evictions could be improved – Exploring strategies through case study analysis in a Belgian municipality	2
Duty to protect and responsibility to respect: data privacy violations in pandemic times	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
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 Europe	2
Limitation of rights in the times of the COVID-19 pandemic: a view from Kosovo’s Constitutional Court’s ‘shaky’ jurisprudence	2
Closing the circle of implementation: the sustainable development goals, universal periodic review, and the rights-based approach to development	2
Human rights practices and college students’ attitudes towards the death penalty in China	2
The role of international law in promoting and enforcing the rights of persons with disabilities	2
Protecting the right to housing in the era of financialisation: four principles for urban renewal	2
Reaching the limit: access to remedy through nonjudicial mechanisms for victims of business-related human rights abuses	2
Locating the stigmatisation of children born of wartime rape on a continuum of violence	2
Should a register be kept of conscientious objectors to euthanasia in Spain?	2
A descriptive mixed-method study of legislation development pertaining to human rights with a focus on human trafficking in GCC countries	2
Anticipatory duties under the human right to science and international biomedical law	2
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	2
More than documenting LGBTQ + narratives: a human rights activists’ perspective from Colombia’s truth commission	2
The social public interest in China's employment anti-discrimination laws and its realisation paths	2
Ecocide, environmental harm and framework integration at the International Criminal Court	2