International Journal of Human Rights

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Human Rights is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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(De-)judicialization of politics in the era of populism: lessons from Central and Eastern Europe32
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 Zimbabwe31
Refusing reconciliation with settler colonialism: wider lessons from the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission24
The interior castle of conscience vs. new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnology18
‘Please, get me called to The Hague!’ The international criminal court as history’s soapbox15
Tracing the legal journey of petitions in the Uttarakhand High Court that became springboards for rights of rivers and nature in India12
Mobilising and constraining: the dynamics of human rights discourse in two Mexican social movements11
The child’s right to freedom of expression in Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara10
Good better best? Human rights impact assessment in crisis lawmaking10
One-dimensional law: a critique of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment9
A tale of two sovereigns: the responsibility to protect and the competing notions of responsible sovereignty9
Beyond the familiar challenges for children and young people’s participation rights: the potential of activism8
Protection of privacy in Bangladesh: issues, challenges and way forward8
Do codes of conduct really mean a change in corporate practices with regard to human rights? Evidence from the largest garment companies worldwide8
Repoliticising indigenous participation: FPIC protocols in Canada and Brazil7
Freedom of expression in turbulent times – comparative approaches to dangerous speech: the ECtHR and the US Supreme Court7
From liberal to conservative? The role of Hong Kong Court of final appeal in safeguarding fundamental rights under China's One Country Two Systems policy7
Deadly force and denial: the military's legacy in Mexico's ‘war on drugs’6
The West Papuan liberation movement, Indonesian settler colonialism and Western imperialism from an international solidarity perspective6
Universal human rights instruments and digital literacy of older persons6
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
The ‘Human Right to Science’ qua right to participate in science6
Public mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: impacts on children's rights6
Admitting (to) the past: transitional justice in the European and Inter-American courts of human rights6
Saami truth and reconciliation commissions5
Sexual harassment in rural workplaces in India and the human rights discourse: a case study of select Hindi films5
Resurgent totalitarianism, charismatic dictatorship, and the rise of socio-political extremism in the age of globalisation and multiculturalism: an escalating human rights crisis5
Forest moralities, kindred knowledge and Sacha Runakuna : Kawsak Sacha as law5
Measuring human rights? Vernacularisation and paradoxes of measurement in child poverty estimation5
The role of the European Union’s securitisation policies in exacerbating the intersectional vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers5
Localised medical moralities: organ trafficking and Israeli medical professionals5
Justice for atrocities: dialogues and encounters between Latin America and Europe. Introduction to the special issue5
Intersectional challenges in post-trafficking reintegration of survivor women of trafficking5
Under the shadow of violence: are the Banyamulenge experiencing a slow genocide?5
Introduction5
Re-theorising the genocide–ecocide nexus: Raphael Lemkin and ecocide in the Amazon4
Foreign concerns: the impact of international investment law on the ethnic-based land restitution programme in Colombia4
Subsidiarity in the ECHR: an empty promise for local authorities?4
‘Male circumcision’ and ‘female genital mutilation’: why parents choose the procedures and the case for gender bias in medical nomenclature4
Regulating transnational corporations at the United Nations – the negotiations of a treaty on business and human rights4
State obligation and landmines: human rights of the disabled in the Islamic Republic of Iran4
Bill of rights for the 21st century: some lessons from the Internet Bill of Rights movement4
An Histoire Juridique Commune? Historiographical frames in European and Inter-American human rights narratives4
Resource extraction as a tool of racism in West Papua4
Playing through crisis: lessons from COVID-19 on play as a fundamental right of the child4
Innovating in uncharted terrain: on interpretation and normative legitimacy in the CESCR’s General Comment No. 25 on the right to science4
Climate displacement and human rights: rectifying the current legal protection lacuna through international and regional solutions4
Anticipation and diplomacy (with)in science: activating the right to science for science diplomacy4
The road (not) taken: implications of health-focused arguments for rights-based climate change litigation in Europe4
From the rule of law to a rule of rights4
Justice from below: corporate accountability in Argentina4
Between a rock and a hard place: (un)balancing the public health interventions and human rights protection in the COVID 19 era in South Africa4
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 o4
Human rights in international law, state responsibilities and accountability mechanisms: a case study of Iran4
Rethinking the right to freedom of thought: on drug policy, neurotechnology, and the case for cognitive liberty3
Expanding into the local level: selective and maximalist models of human rights implementation in Denmark and Sweden3
Surviving the pandemic: the livelihood struggles of undocumented Chinese immigrants in the UK3
‘Human rights’ in judicial judgement of China3
The Cartagena ‘Spirit’ as a third world human rights alternative to refugee protection: lessons to learn from Brazil’s approach to Venezuelan socio-economic refugee3
Genocide in Palestine: Gaza as a case study3
Pandemic and community’s sense of justice through suo motu in India3
The prevalence of identity among religious minorities in different human rights environments3
Between Scylla and Charybdis: the implications of the human right to science for regulating the harms and benefits of environmental science and technology3
Correction3
The role of Criminal Justice in dealing with past atrocities in the Spanish and Argentine transitions: common grounds, but different pathways3
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
Academic freedom between past and present: the birth of one-dimensional academia in Turkey3
‘I know about something called human rights’: claiming refugee rights through protest at UNHCR Beirut3
Exploring the role of regulation in urban citizenship practices: looking at Swiss and Turkish cities3
Potential tension between children’s engagement in work and the rights of the child: resolving the conflict using margin of appreciation doctrine3
Impact of clientelism on the rights of children in residential care: Cambodia and Myanmar3
Global data on the freedom indispensable for scientific research: towards a reconciliation of academic reputation and academic freedom3
Towards an evaluation of the nexus between unfettered, unregulated capitalism, donor aid and debt relief inconsistencies, and the problem of post-election violence in Kenya2
Protecting the right to housing in the era of financialisation: four principles for urban renewal2
Norms of protection in IR: humanitarian wars and the ironic creation of pre-Westphalian states2
Human rights practices and college students’ attitudes towards the death penalty in China2
Ecocide, environmental harm and framework integration at the International Criminal Court2
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 Europe2
Duty to protect and responsibility to respect: data privacy violations in pandemic times2
Anticipatory duties under the human right to science and international biomedical law2
Cultural human rights as new foundations for interculturalist policies: a rights-based approach from Québec2
The prevention of gender-based violence in Ethiopia in light of the three cycles UPR process2
Re-emphasizing the individual components of ‘child, early, and forced marriage’2
Locating the stigmatisation of children born of wartime rape on a continuum of violence2
#Papuanlivesmatter: how a narrative of racism has elevated West Papua’s decolonisation movement2
Closing the circle of implementation: the sustainable development goals, universal periodic review, and the rights-based approach to development2
Human rights challenges in post-uprising Egypt: political actors’ reflections on the years of 2011–20132
Reaching the limit: access to remedy through nonjudicial mechanisms for victims of business-related human rights abuses2
Discrimination against persons of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities as a statelessness-generating factor?2
Struggling for justice in post-authoritarian states: human rights protest in Indonesia2
How human rights implementation by local authorities dealing with Traveller evictions could be improved – Exploring strategies through case study analysis in a Belgian municipality2
The role of international law in promoting and enforcing the rights of persons with disabilities2
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 bloc2
From ‘raise the age’ to ‘raise the awareness’: how knowledge affects public opinion of the minimum age of criminal responsibility in Western Australia2
A new historical bloc and the political economy of international criminal prosecutions at the international criminal court2
Comparing universal jurisdiction in Europe and in Latin America: a vehicle for international justice or for colonial reckoning?2
Torture manual: the military and the policing of Mexico’s war on drugs2
In the break (of rights and representation): sociality beyond the non/human subject2
Correction2
Applicability of the right to free elections clause of the ECHR to presidential elections: the case of Turkey's new presidential system1
Children’s human rights in the contexts of domestic abuse and COVID-191
Corporations and positive duties to fulfil socio-economic rights: developing international human rights law1
Is academic freedom at risk from internationalisation? Results from a 2020 survey of UK social scientists1
Applying critical pedagogies to human rights education1
Displacing the displaced: the response to the protracted precarious situation of Syrian refugees in Türkiye during the Covid-19 pandemic1
Beyond liberal justice? Decolonising Colombian transitional justice through victims’ participation and indigenous rights1
Health, privacy and liberty: a call for digital governance during (and after) the pandemic1
Limitation of rights in the times of the COVID-19 pandemic: a view from Kosovo’s Constitutional Court’s ‘shaky’ jurisprudence1
Constitutional review of criminal norms: does Indonesia need judicial activism?1
Constitutional bills of rights and democratic transformation in post-authoritarian scenarios1
Environmental protection through European and African human rights frameworks1
A response to decentralised governance of human rights: a Children's Rights Approach in Wales1
Reviewing the impact of COVID-19 on children’s rights to, in and through education1
Genuine commitment or search for prestige? Italy’s ambiguous foreign policy discourse on human rights1
Supporting academic freedom as a human right: challenges and solutions in academic publishing1
At-risk scholars in Europe: ‘academic humanitarianism’ in the name of science ‘here’ as opposed to the risk ‘there’1
Between a rock and a hard place: academic freedom in globalising Chinese universities1
The social public interest in China's employment anti-discrimination laws and its realisation paths1
From human rights documentation towards arts-based interventions: NGO collaborations with artists and the reimagining of human rights1
Aid for justice? Analyzing the impact of foreign aid on recipient transitional justice implementation1
Entrenching children's participation through UNCRC Incorporation in Scotland1
A human right to friendship? Dignity, autonomy, and social deprivation1
Punishing or regulating? US media attention to hate crime and speech1
Protecting vulnerable groups in Europe: highlights from recent case law of the European Court of Human Rights1
A review of the legitimacy of FIFA’s participation in Qatar’s human rights governance1
Water as a human right, water as a commodity: can SDG6 be a compromise?1
Silencing the ‘Guapinol Eight’: abuse of the Honduran criminal justice system to unjustly criminalise and punish human rights defenders1
A contextual analysis of the evolution of transitional justice: the story of Taiwan1
A descriptive mixed-method study of legislation development pertaining to human rights with a focus on human trafficking in GCC countries1
Learning from the past? How the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, civil society initiatives and survivor stories shape young Cambodians’ understanding of non-recurrence0
Towards a spectral forensics: spirits as epistemic resources in responses to the dead and missing0
Leadership responsibility in non-state criminal organisations. The rediscovery of indirect perpetration through an organisation by Latin American courts and the ICC0
The Ayotzinapa case (Mexico) and the role of the European Parliament as a moral tribune to promote human rights worldwide0
The right to freedom of thought: an interdisciplinary analysis of the UN special rapporteur’s report on freedom of thought0
López Obrador’s hyper-presidentialism: populism and autocratic legalism defying the Supreme Court and the National Electoral Institute0
Trends in the qualification of asylum claims related to gender-based violence under international and European Law0
Protecting fundamental values through the global human rights sanction regime: China's challenges to the EU's normative power0
Anticipatory co-governance for human rights to sciences across knowledge systems0
Do human rights frameworks identify AI’s problems? The limits of a burgeoning methodology for AI problem assessment0
Protecting the protectors: redefining immunity protections for National Human Rights Institutions0
The death of neoliberalism? UK responses to the pandemic0
Participation in child protection: empowering children in placement processes0
The work of art, beside and beyond rights0
Authoritarian populism, conceptions of democracy, and the Hungarian Constitutional Court: the case of political participation0
Assessing the International Criminal Court’s response to genocide: a reference to the case of Al-Bashir0
Monitoring, governmental data access and the invocation of Article 8 ECHR by legal persons0
Internationalisation nexus in European higher education: forced or intended?0
Nông dân being wronged: fighting for the world in a place0
Authoritarianism and marketisation in higher education:implications of China’s rise for cosmopolitan academic citizenship0
Political, physical, and cultural techniques of genocide against the Rohingyas of Myanmar0
Mitigating threats to academic freedom in Germany: the role of the state, universities, learned societies and China0
Amnesty as a tool in the deradicalisation of Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria: a threat to national security0
Good international citizenship and the protection of internally displaced persons: examining Kenya’s law and policy0
‘After rights’ is friendship: on abandonment, obligation and the stranger0
Exploring the impacts of artificial intelligence on freedom of religion or belief online0
The UN voluntary compact and peacekeeping abuse: assessing a soft law solution for sexual exploitation and abuse0
Moving beyond binary identities in transitional justice: recognising the complexity of agency in agonistic spaces0
Social protection in the mandate of the IMF0
Opportunistic oppression: U.S. migration restrictions and public health policy during the COVID-19 pandemic0
The right to protest0
Indigenous judges at the special jurisdiction for peace: reimagining the role of transitional justice judges0
The concept of vulnerability and its relation to the concepts of inequality and discrimination – a review article0
Fraternity as a constitutional principle from the perspective of the Judiciary0
Forging new habits: critical drugs scholarship as an otherwise to rights0
The after rights of the Citizen of the UK and its Colonies: who is the subject of the rights of the citizen in Britain’s hostile environment?0
Preventing immigration detention of children: a comparative study of laws in 150 countries0
Privacy and the legalisation of mass surveillance: in search of a second wind for international human rights law0
The European far right and human rights language0
Revelation without reparation: evaluating the Oklahoma commission to study the Tulsa Race Riot of 19210
‘Lost in translation’: United Nations commentaries on gender stereotypes to Muslim countries0
Domesticating human rights: restricting child marriage in Spain0
Do local authorities take human rights seriously? Lessons from the French case0
To intervene or not to intervene: intervention before the court of justice of the european union in environmental and migration law0
Reconceptualising socioeconomic rights: a case for care ethics0
The Rohingya refugee crisis: analysing the international law implications of its environmental impacts on Bangladesh0
Access to health care for Venezuelan irregular migrants in Colombia: between constitutional adjudication and human rights law0
Impunity in cases of serious human rights violations: three relevant aspects of contention in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights0
Beyond the turn to human rights: a call for an intersectional climate justice approach0
Human rights infringements, delays and the Privy Council: the conundrum of human rights and the death penalty in Trinidad and Tobago0
After truth, after shame … after information politics? Rethinking the epistemologies of human rights in the digital-authoritarian conjuncture0
Mattering in the Anthropocene: the ECtHR’s domesticating framing of climate change0
Rights of nature and rivers in Ecuador’s Constitutional Court0
What makes transitional justice possible? An analysis of the Spanish case0
The impact of populism on constitutional interpretation in the EU Member States0
How safe is the zone, and how voluntarily are the returnees? Turkey’s project for a ‘safe and dignified’ voluntary repatriation of Syrian refugees and the potential implementation of R2P on behalf of 0
‘We vowed by force, not by our heart’: men’s and women’s perspectives on forced marriage during the Cambodian genocide0
Beyond legal personhood for the Whanganui River: collaboration and pluralism in implementing the Te Awa Tupua Act0
Rights in the mandate and work of international organisations0
Why neoliberal ideology, privatisation, and other challenges make a reframing of the right to education in international law necessary0
Enhancing the use of Children's Rights Impact Assessments in ordinary and extraordinary times to understand the rights of children subject to statutory intervention in family life0
Evolving rights to (and of) water in Chile: a case for relationship-based water law and governance0
Civil resistance campaign for the Free Papua Movement and student protests in 2019 in Surabaya, Indonesia0
Discriminatory practices in armed conflict contexts: exploring (parallel) proceedings under the European Convention on Human Rights and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of 0
Emphasising socio-economic narratives of truth, justice and reparations in The Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen0
From human rights to human wrongs. How local government can negatively influence the situation of an individual. The case of Polish LGBT ideology-free zones*0
Meaningful acknowledgement: how to evaluate acknowledgement in transitional justice interactions using deliberative reciprocity?0
Refusing the present to affirm the unknown future: after LGBTIQ rights in global queer politics0
Cultural and language rights of minorities and indigenous peoples0
To Geneva and back: externalising anti-LGBT hate crime as a policy issue0
Local authorities at the European Court of Human Rights0
Conceptualising the transformative justice potential of peace processes0
Neoliberal rationality and the rhetoric of sacrifice in the construction of proportionality discourse: a case-study from the European Court of Human Rights0
Access to justice for atrocities in the comparison of land-mark cases on state immunity in Brazil and Italy0
Children’s rights impact assessments in times of crisis: learning from COVID-190
Model code of conduct: protection of academic freedom and the academic community in the context of the internationalisation of the UK HE sector0
The effect of war exposure on children; an exploration of conflict and post-conflict gendered experiences0
The human rights archival gap: ethno-archiving the silencing of radical activism and Israel’s violence against Palestinian women0
Human rights protection under the ICCPR: when can and should States derogate? A critical analysis in the context of New Zealand’s COVID-19 response0
Home country regulates outbound investment to fulfill human rights obligations-taking China as an example0
Protection for whom? Impact of international humanitarian regulations and forced child recruitment0
Heroes and hierarchies: the celebration and censure of victimhood in transitional justice0
The trials of judge Garzón and the enforceability of decisions by human rights treaty bodies in Spain0
Criminalisation of sex workers: rethinking the public order0
Gastrocolonialism: the intersections of race, food, and development in West Papua0
Discrimination against dual nationals in the name of national security: a Finnish case study0
Mapping Arabic human rights discourse: a thematic review0
The right to be, to feel and to exist: Indigenous lawyers and strategic litigation over Indigenous territories in Guatemala0
My corona: listening to children in corona times0
Take me to the River: have riverine rights enhanced community participation in environmental governance within the Atrato River basin?0
Is a right to health a means to protect public health? South Africa as a model for a communitarian interpretation of the right to health for the promotion of public health0
COVID-19 quarantine in Taiwan: from ‘success story’ to perilous deprivation of liberty0
Through selective activism towards greater resilience: the Czech Constitutional Court's interventions into high politics in the age of populism0
Guaranteeing the rights of children and adolescents in Brazilian foster care institutions0
Justice, rights-politics, and the coloniality of knowledge production: critical lessons from Rojava and the Jineolojî movement towards liberating life0
Anticipation under the human right to science and under other social and cultural rights0
Seeking overlap and redundancy in human rights protection: reputation, consistency and the acceptance of the UN human rights treaties’ individual communications procedures0
Reason enough to hope? The citational practices and disorienting subjects that make menstruation a matter of human rights0
Review of human rights-based approaches to development: Empirical evidence from developing countries0
The ping-pong strategy: confronting atrocities from the exile0
Masculinities and transitional justice: a feminist reflection on Colombia’s truth commission final report0
Safeguarding the child’s right to privacy and data protection in the European Union and China: a tale of state duties and business responsibilities0
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) vis-à-vis amnesties and pardons: factors concerning or affecting the degree of ECtHR’s deference to states0
Introduction to the special issue on academic freedom and internationalisation0
Abortion, same-sex marriage, and gender identity during the Pink Tide: Venezuela compared to Latin American trends0
Commitments to forced migrants in African peace agreements, 1990–20180
Sexual violence against women as a weapon of Rohingya genocide in Myanmar0
Human rights and care homes for older people: a typology of approaches from academic literature as a starting point for activist scholarship in human rights and institutional care0
‘Stop the boats’: deterrence of asylum seekers from the perspective of Australian medical professionals0
Anti-imperial epistemic justice and re-making rights and justice ‘after rights’0
Two Chinese tales of human rights– Mainland China’s and Taiwan’s external human rights strategies0
Obstacles to and opportunities for protecting human rights at the city level: The case of Madrid City Council Human Rights Plan (2017–2019)0
After rights? Politics, ethics, aesthetics: an introduction0
Citizens as lawmakers: legal innovation and the competing moralities of environmental juridification0
The intercontinental dialogue on enforced disappearances: the case of massive disappearances during hostilities0
Rights in the collaboration between the World Bank and the United Nations in the areas of investment in agriculture, rural development and food systems0
The role of Turkish administrative courts in developing jurisprudence on refugee rights: review of the judgments of the administrative courts from 2014 to 20210
Can Black males be subjects of human rights violations?0
The extraordinary rendition network: illiberal security complexes and global governance0
Indigenous rights and ontological plurality in the institutional arrangements for the Waikato and Waipā Rivers in Aotearoa0
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