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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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	35
Refusing reconciliation with settler colonialism: wider lessons from the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission	34
‘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	19
The interior castle of conscience vs. new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnology	17
Mobilising and constraining: the dynamics of human rights discourse in two Mexican social movements	13
The child’s right to freedom of expression in Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara	12
One-dimensional law: a critique of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment	11
Good better best? Human rights impact assessment in crisis lawmaking	10
Protection of privacy in Bangladesh: issues, challenges and way forward	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
A tale of two sovereigns: the responsibility to protect and the competing notions of responsible sovereignty	10
The West Papuan liberation movement, Indonesian settler colonialism and Western imperialism from an international solidarity perspective	9
The ‘Human Right to Science’ qua right to participate in science	8
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	7
Beyond the familiar challenges for children and young people’s participation rights: the potential of activism	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
Admitting (to) the past: transitional justice in the European and Inter-American courts of human rights	7
Deadly force and denial: the military's legacy in Mexico's ‘war on drugs’	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
Universal human rights instruments and digital literacy of older persons	6
Intersectional challenges in post-trafficking reintegration of survivor women of trafficking	6
Under the shadow of violence: are the Banyamulenge experiencing a slow genocide?	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	5
Resource extraction as a tool of racism in West Papua	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
Measuring human rights? Vernacularisation and paradoxes of measurement in child poverty estimation	5
Introduction	5
Justice for atrocities: dialogues and encounters between Latin America and Europe. Introduction to the special issue	5
Re-theorising the genocide–ecocide nexus: Raphael Lemkin and ecocide in the Amazon	5
From the rule of law to a rule of rights	5
Localised medical moralities: organ trafficking and Israeli medical professionals	5
Forest moralities, kindred knowledge and Sacha Runakuna : Kawsak Sacha as law	5
Justice from below: corporate accountability in Argentina	5
Foreign concerns: the impact of international investment law on the ethnic-based land restitution programme in Colombia	5
Bill of rights for the 21st century: some lessons from the Internet Bill of Rights movement	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
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
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
Subsidiarity in the ECHR: an empty promise for local authorities?	4
Playing through crisis: lessons from COVID-19 on play as a fundamental right of the child	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
Regulating transnational corporations at the United Nations – the negotiations of a treaty on business 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
State obligation and landmines: human rights of the disabled in the Islamic Republic of Iran	4
‘I know about something called human rights’: claiming refugee rights through protest at UNHCR Beirut	4
Innovating in uncharted terrain: on interpretation and normative legitimacy in the CESCR’s General Comment No. 25 on the right to science	4
Genocide in Palestine: Gaza as a case study	3
Exploring the role of regulation in urban citizenship practices: looking at Swiss and Turkish cities	3
Academic freedom between past and present: the birth of one-dimensional academia in Turkey	3
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and rights protection: revisionist or just another kid on the block?	3
Should a register be kept of conscientious objectors to euthanasia in Spain?	3
Cultural human rights as new foundations for interculturalist policies: a rights-based approach from Québec	3
Discrimination against persons of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities as a statelessness-generating factor?	3
Impact of clientelism on the rights of children in residential care: Cambodia and Myanmar	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
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
Anticipatory duties under the human right to science and international biomedical law	3
Surviving the pandemic: the livelihood struggles of undocumented Chinese immigrants in the UK	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
Correction	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
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

A new historical bloc and the political economy of international criminal prosecutions at the international criminal court	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
Ecocide, environmental harm and framework integration at the International Criminal Court	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
Norms of protection in IR: humanitarian wars and the ironic creation of pre-Westphalian states	2
More than documenting LGBTQ + narratives: a human rights activists’ perspective from Colombia’s truth commission	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
Re-emphasizing the individual components of ‘child, early, and forced marriage’	2
Human rights practices and college students’ attitudes towards the death penalty in China	2
A descriptive mixed-method study of legislation development pertaining to human rights with a focus on human trafficking in GCC countries	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
#Papuanlivesmatter: how a narrative of racism has elevated West Papua’s decolonisation movement	2
Reaching the limit: access to remedy through nonjudicial mechanisms for victims of business-related human rights abuses	2
Struggling for justice in post-authoritarian states: human rights protest in Indonesia	2
Torture manual: the military and the policing of Mexico’s war on drugs	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
The role of international law in promoting and enforcing the rights of persons with disabilities	2
From human rights documentation towards arts-based interventions: NGO collaborations with artists and the reimagining of human rights	2
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
Human rights challenges in post-uprising Egypt: political actors’ reflections on the years of 2011–2013	2
The prevention of gender-based violence in Ethiopia in light of the three cycles UPR process	2