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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

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	36
Refusing reconciliation with settler colonialism: wider lessons from the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission	35
‘Please, get me called to The Hague!’ The international criminal court as history’s soapbox	29
Tracing the legal journey of petitions in the Uttarakhand High Court that became springboards for rights of rivers and nature in India	20
The interior castle of conscience vs. new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnology	18
Mobilising and constraining: the dynamics of human rights discourse in two Mexican social movements	14
One-dimensional law: a critique of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment	13
A tale of two sovereigns: the responsibility to protect and the competing notions of responsible sovereignty	12
The child’s right to freedom of expression in Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara	10
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
Good better best? Human rights impact assessment in crisis lawmaking	10
The ‘Human Right to Science’ qua right to participate in science	10
Protection of privacy in Bangladesh: issues, challenges and way forward	10
Do codes of conduct really mean a change in corporate practices with regard to human rights? Evidence from the largest garment companies worldwide	9
Repoliticising indigenous participation: FPIC protocols in Canada and Brazil	9
Beyond the familiar challenges for children and young people’s participation rights: the potential of activism	8
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
Universal human rights instruments and digital literacy of older persons	7
Public mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: impacts on children's rights	7
Deadly force and denial: the military's legacy in Mexico's ‘war on drugs’	7
The West Papuan liberation movement, Indonesian settler colonialism and Western imperialism from an international solidarity perspective	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
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

Measuring human rights? Vernacularisation and paradoxes of measurement in child poverty estimation	6
Intersectional challenges in post-trafficking reintegration of survivor women of trafficking	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
The role of the European Union’s securitisation policies in exacerbating the intersectional vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers	6
‘Male circumcision’ and ‘female genital mutilation’: why parents choose the procedures and the case for gender bias in medical nomenclature	5
Justice for atrocities: dialogues and encounters between Latin America and Europe. Introduction to the special issue	5
An Histoire Juridique Commune? Historiographical frames in European and Inter-American human rights narratives	5
The road (not) taken: implications of health-focused arguments for rights-based climate change litigation in Europe	5
Re-theorising the genocide–ecocide nexus: Raphael Lemkin and ecocide in the Amazon	5
Justice from below: corporate accountability in Argentina	5
Introduction	5
Resource extraction as a tool of racism in West Papua	5
Subsidiarity in the ECHR: an empty promise for local authorities?	5
Forest moralities, kindred knowledge and Sacha Runakuna : Kawsak Sacha as law	5
From the rule of law to a rule of rights	5
Foreign concerns: the impact of international investment law on the ethnic-based land restitution programme in Colombia	5
Admitting but not apologising: the Indonesian government’s confrontation with the 1965–1966 genocide	4
Regulating transnational corporations at the United Nations – the negotiations of a treaty on business and human rights	4
Anticipation and diplomacy (with)in science: activating the right to science for science diplomacy	4
Innovating in uncharted terrain: on interpretation and normative legitimacy in the CESCR’s General Comment No. 25 on the right to science	4
State obligation and landmines: human rights of the disabled in the Islamic Republic of Iran	4
Bill of rights for the 21st century: some lessons from the Internet Bill of Rights movement	4
Climate displacement and human rights: rectifying the current legal protection lacuna through international and regional solutions	4
Human rights in international law, state responsibilities and accountability mechanisms: a case study of Iran	4
Expanding into the local level: selective and maximalist models of human rights implementation in Denmark and Sweden	4
In the best interest of the child: a study on unaccompanied migrant children at the gateway to Spain	4
Playing through crisis: lessons from COVID-19 on play as a fundamental right of the child	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
Between Scylla and Charybdis: the implications of the human right to science for regulating the harms and benefits of environmental science and technology	4
The role of Criminal Justice in dealing with past atrocities in the Spanish and Argentine transitions: common grounds, but different pathways	4
Genocide in Palestine: Gaza as a case study	3
Correction	3
Should a register be kept of conscientious objectors to euthanasia in Spain?	3
Exploring the role of regulation in urban citizenship practices: looking at Swiss and Turkish cities	3
The prevalence of identity among religious minorities in different human rights environments	3
Potential tension between children’s engagement in work and the rights of the child: resolving the conflict using margin of appreciation doctrine	3
Correction	3
Rethinking the right to freedom of thought: on drug policy, neurotechnology, and the case for cognitive liberty	3
Cultural human rights as new foundations for interculturalist policies: a rights-based approach from Québec*	3
Global data on the freedom indispensable for scientific research: towards a reconciliation of academic reputation and academic freedom	3
Surviving the pandemic: the livelihood struggles of undocumented Chinese immigrants in the UK	3
‘Human rights’ in judicial judgement of China	3
‘ … a substantial part of the trauma was caused by an accidental fall … ’: liminal spaces and post-apartheid accountability in South Africa	3
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and rights protection: revisionist or just another kid on the block?	3
Pandemic and community’s sense of justice through suo motu in India	3
In the break (of rights and representation): sociality beyond the non/human subject	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
‘I know about something called human rights’: claiming refugee rights through protest at UNHCR Beirut	3
Academic freedom between past and present: the birth of one-dimensional academia in Turkey	3
Impact of clientelism on the rights of children in residential care: Cambodia and Myanmar	3

Closing the circle of implementation: the sustainable development goals, universal periodic review, and the rights-based approach to development	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
The prevention of gender-based violence in Ethiopia in light of the three cycles UPR process	2
A new historical bloc and the political economy of international criminal prosecutions at the international criminal court	2
Human rights challenges in post-uprising Egypt: political actors’ reflections on the years of 2011–2013	2
Re-emphasizing the individual components of ‘child, early, and forced marriage’	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
More than documenting LGBTQ + narratives: a human rights activists’ perspective from Colombia’s truth commission	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
Anticipatory duties under the human right to science and international biomedical law	2
Ecocide, environmental harm and framework integration at the International Criminal Court	2
Discrimination against persons of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities as a statelessness-generating factor?	2
#Papuanlivesmatter: how a narrative of racism has elevated West Papua’s decolonisation movement	2
Human rights practices and college students’ attitudes towards the death penalty in China	2
Reaching the limit: access to remedy through nonjudicial mechanisms for victims of business-related human rights abuses	2
A descriptive mixed-method study of legislation development pertaining to human rights with a focus on human trafficking in GCC countries	2
Comparing universal jurisdiction in Europe and in Latin America: a vehicle for international justice or for colonial reckoning?	2
Norms of protection in IR: humanitarian wars and the ironic creation of pre-Westphalian states	2
Torture manual: the military and the policing of Mexico’s war on drugs	2
Protecting the right to housing in the era of financialisation: four principles for urban renewal	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