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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

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	42
‘Please, get me called to The Hague!’ The international criminal court as history’s soapbox	25
Refusing reconciliation with settler colonialism: wider lessons from the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission	23
The interior castle of conscience vs. new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnology	22
Framing climate remedies in European human rights law: It is all about trust – in European democracies	20
Good better best? Human rights impact assessment in crisis lawmaking	18
Tracing the legal journey of petitions in the Uttarakhand High Court that became springboards for rights of rivers and nature in India	18
The child’s right to freedom of expression in Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara	16
Protection of privacy in Bangladesh: issues, challenges and way forward	14
One-dimensional law: a critique of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment	14
Respatialising the global imaginary of gay rights: resisting Africana epistemicide and forging Solidaristic Imaginaries	13
Mobilising and constraining: the dynamics of human rights discourse in two Mexican social movements	10
A tale of two sovereigns: the responsibility to protect and the competing notions of responsible sovereignty	9
The ‘Human Right to Science’ qua right to participate in science	8
Exploring evolving attitudes towards school violence at the European Court of Human Rights	8
Diaspora transnationalism and transitional justice: theorising the politics of engagement	8
Repoliticising indigenous participation: FPIC protocols in Canada and Brazil	8
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	8
Activist allyship, unspoken dilemma: deconstructing the tension between reproductive autonomy and disability justice	8
On the concepts of human security, dignity and vulnerability: understanding the mechanisms of being ‘at risk’	8
Genocide in the Spanish Civil War? Francoist repression in the light of international law	7
Do codes of conduct really mean a change in corporate practices with regard to human rights? Evidence from the largest garment companies worldwide	7
Human rights through the kaleidoscope: the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review	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
Intersectional challenges in post-trafficking reintegration of survivor women of trafficking	6
The role of the European Union’s securitisation policies in exacerbating the intersectional vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers	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 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?	6
Universal human rights instruments and digital literacy of older persons	6
Measuring human rights? Vernacularisation and paradoxes of measurement in child poverty estimation	6
Public mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: impacts on children's rights	6
Sexual harassment in rural workplaces in India and the human rights discourse: a case study of select Hindi films	6
Localised medical moralities: organ trafficking and Israeli medical professionals	5
Resource extraction as a tool of racism in West Papua	5
From the rule of law to a rule of rights	5
Introduction	5
Internet access as a human right: insights from the empirical analysis of the UN international human rights framework*	5
An Histoire Juridique Commune? Historiographical frames in European and Inter-American human rights narratives	5
Justice for atrocities: dialogues and encounters between Latin America and Europe. Introduction to the special issue	5
Forest moralities, kindred knowledge and Sacha Runakuna : Kawsak Sacha as law	5
Protecting the right to science in multilateral environmental agreements addressing chemicals and plastics pollution	5
Mapping corporate obligations towards the Rule of Law under international law	5
Between Scylla and Charybdis: the implications of the human right to science for regulating the harms and benefits of environmental science and technology	4
‘I know about something called human rights’: claiming refugee rights through protest at UNHCR Beirut	4
In the best interest of the child: a study on unaccompanied migrant children at the gateway to Spain	4
‘Male circumcision’ and ‘female genital mutilation’: why parents choose the procedures and the case for gender bias in medical nomenclature	4
Anticipation and diplomacy (with)in science: activating the right to science for science diplomacy	4
Climate displacement and human rights: rectifying the current legal protection lacuna through international and regional solutions	4
Playing through crisis: lessons from COVID-19 on play as a fundamental right of the child	4
Admitting but not apologising: the Indonesian government’s confrontation with the 1965–1966 genocide	4
Foreign concerns: the impact of international investment law on the ethnic-based land restitution programme in Colombia	4
State obligation and landmines: human rights of the disabled in the Islamic Republic of Iran	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
Subsidiarity in the ECHR: an empty promise for local authorities?	4
The road (not) taken: implications of health-focused arguments for rights-based climate change litigation in Europe	4
Justice from below: corporate accountability in Argentina	4
Innovating in uncharted terrain: on interpretation and normative legitimacy in the CESCR’s General Comment No. 25 on the right to science	3
Human rights in international law, state responsibilities and accountability mechanisms: a case study of Iran	3
Regulating transnational corporations at the United Nations – the negotiations of a treaty on business and human rights	3
Expanding into the local level: selective and maximalist models of human rights implementation in Denmark and Sweden	3
Exploring the role of regulation in urban citizenship practices: looking at Swiss and Turkish cities	3
Genocide in Palestine: Gaza as a case study	3
Rethinking the right to freedom of thought: on drug policy, neurotechnology, and the case for cognitive liberty	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
The prevalence of identity among religious minorities in different human rights environments	3
Indigenous land disputes at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights 1991–2020: assessing thirty years of jurisprudence	3
‘ … a substantial part of the trauma was caused by an accidental fall … ’: liminal spaces and post-apartheid accountability in South Africa	3
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 society	3
Academic freedom between past and present: the birth of one-dimensional academia in Turkey	3
‘Making the office a global technological leader’: digital evidence and technological innovation at the ICC	3
The victimhood and reparative needs of Myanmar's Rohingya: towards effective reparations in international law	3
Impact of clientelism on the rights of children in residential care: Cambodia and Myanmar	3
Correction	3

Feeding human rights: Jimmy Carter’s food politics for World Hunger	3
The role of Criminal Justice in dealing with past atrocities in the Spanish and Argentine transitions: common grounds, but different pathways	3
Surviving the pandemic: the livelihood struggles of undocumented Chinese immigrants in the UK	3
‘Human rights’ in judicial judgement of China	3
Economic roots of media freedom: is income inequality a matter?	3
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and rights protection: revisionist or just another kid on the block?	3
Anticipatory duties under the human right to science and international biomedical law	2
Cultural human rights as new foundations for interculturalist policies: a rights-based approach from Québec*	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
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
From human rights documentation towards arts-based interventions: NGO collaborations with artists and the reimagining of human rights	2
The role of international law in promoting and enforcing the rights of persons with disabilities	2
Reaching the limit: access to remedy through nonjudicial mechanisms for victims of business-related human rights abuses	2
Limitation of rights in the times of the COVID-19 pandemic: a view from Kosovo’s Constitutional Court’s ‘shaky’ jurisprudence	2
Comparing universal jurisdiction in Europe and in Latin America: a vehicle for international justice or for colonial reckoning?	2
Protecting the right to housing in the era of financialisation: four principles for urban renewal	2
Torture manual: the military and the policing of Mexico’s war on drugs	2
In the break (of rights and representation): sociality beyond the non/human subject	2
Discrimination against persons of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities as a statelessness-generating factor?	2
Re-emphasizing the individual components of ‘child, early, and forced marriage’	2
Health, privacy and liberty: a call for digital governance during (and after) the pandemic	2
Locating the stigmatisation of children born of wartime rape on a continuum of violence	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
Revisiting universal jurisdiction through the victim’s right to an effective remedy: a victim-centred approach under the Convention against Torture	2
A new historical bloc and the political economy of international criminal prosecutions at the international criminal court	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
#Papuanlivesmatter: how a narrative of racism has elevated West Papua’s decolonisation movement	2
Correction	2
Should a register be kept of conscientious objectors to euthanasia in Spain?	2
Closing the circle of implementation: the sustainable development goals, universal periodic review, and the rights-based approach to development	2
A descriptive mixed-method study of legislation development pertaining to human rights with a focus on human trafficking in GCC countries	2
Human rights practices and college students’ attitudes towards the death penalty in China	2
Constitutional review of criminal norms: does Indonesia need judicial activism?	2
The social public interest in China's employment anti-discrimination laws and its realisation paths	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
Ecocide, environmental harm and framework integration at the International Criminal Court	2
ECtHR jurisprudence amid political shifts: rolling back the protection against pushbacks	2