International Journal of Human Rights

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Human Rights is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
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 Zimbabwe42
‘Please, get me called to The Hague!’ The international criminal court as history’s soapbox25
Refusing reconciliation with settler colonialism: wider lessons from the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission23
The interior castle of conscience vs. new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnology22
Framing climate remedies in European human rights law: It is all about trust – in European democracies20
Good better best? Human rights impact assessment in crisis lawmaking18
Tracing the legal journey of petitions in the Uttarakhand High Court that became springboards for rights of rivers and nature in India18
The child’s right to freedom of expression in Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara16
Protection of privacy in Bangladesh: issues, challenges and way forward14
One-dimensional law: a critique of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment14
Respatialising the global imaginary of gay rights: resisting Africana epistemicide and forging Solidaristic Imaginaries13
Mobilising and constraining: the dynamics of human rights discourse in two Mexican social movements10
A tale of two sovereigns: the responsibility to protect and the competing notions of responsible sovereignty9
The ‘Human Right to Science’ qua right to participate in science8
Exploring evolving attitudes towards school violence at the European Court of Human Rights8
Diaspora transnationalism and transitional justice: theorising the politics of engagement8
Repoliticising indigenous participation: FPIC protocols in Canada and Brazil8
From liberal to conservative? The role of Hong Kong Court of final appeal in safeguarding fundamental rights under China's One Country Two Systems policy8
Activist allyship, unspoken dilemma: deconstructing the tension between reproductive autonomy and disability justice8
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 law7
Do codes of conduct really mean a change in corporate practices with regard to human rights? Evidence from the largest garment companies worldwide7
Human rights through the kaleidoscope: the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review7
The West Papuan liberation movement, Indonesian settler colonialism and Western imperialism from an international solidarity perspective7
Admitting (to) the past: transitional justice in the European and Inter-American courts of human rights7
Under the shadow of violence: are the Banyamulenge experiencing a slow genocide?7
Intersectional challenges in post-trafficking reintegration of survivor women of trafficking6
The role of the European Union’s securitisation policies in exacerbating the intersectional vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers6
Resurgent totalitarianism, charismatic dictatorship, and the rise of socio-political extremism in the age of globalisation and multiculturalism: an escalating human rights crisis6
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 persons6
Measuring human rights? Vernacularisation and paradoxes of measurement in child poverty estimation6
Public mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: impacts on children's rights6
Sexual harassment in rural workplaces in India and the human rights discourse: a case study of select Hindi films6
Localised medical moralities: organ trafficking and Israeli medical professionals5
Resource extraction as a tool of racism in West Papua5
From the rule of law to a rule of rights5
Introduction5
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 narratives5
Justice for atrocities: dialogues and encounters between Latin America and Europe. Introduction to the special issue5
Forest moralities, kindred knowledge and Sacha Runakuna : Kawsak Sacha as law5
Protecting the right to science in multilateral environmental agreements addressing chemicals and plastics pollution5
Mapping corporate obligations towards the Rule of Law under international law5
Between Scylla and Charybdis: the implications of the human right to science for regulating the harms and benefits of environmental science and technology4
‘I know about something called human rights’: claiming refugee rights through protest at UNHCR Beirut4
In the best interest of the child: a study on unaccompanied migrant children at the gateway to Spain4
‘Male circumcision’ and ‘female genital mutilation’: why parents choose the procedures and the case for gender bias in medical nomenclature4
Anticipation and diplomacy (with)in science: activating the right to science for science diplomacy4
Climate displacement and human rights: rectifying the current legal protection lacuna through international and regional solutions4
Playing through crisis: lessons from COVID-19 on play as a fundamental right of the child4
Admitting but not apologising: the Indonesian government’s confrontation with the 1965–1966 genocide4
Foreign concerns: the impact of international investment law on the ethnic-based land restitution programme in Colombia4
State obligation and landmines: human rights of the disabled in the Islamic Republic of Iran4
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
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 Europe4
Justice from below: corporate accountability in Argentina4
Innovating in uncharted terrain: on interpretation and normative legitimacy in the CESCR’s General Comment No. 25 on the right to science3
Human rights in international law, state responsibilities and accountability mechanisms: a case study of Iran3
Regulating transnational corporations at the United Nations – the negotiations of a treaty on business and human rights3
Expanding into the local level: selective and maximalist models of human rights implementation in Denmark and Sweden3
Exploring the role of regulation in urban citizenship practices: looking at Swiss and Turkish cities3
Genocide in Palestine: Gaza as a case study3
Rethinking the right to freedom of thought: on drug policy, neurotechnology, and the case for cognitive liberty3
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
The prevalence of identity among religious minorities in different human rights environments3
Indigenous land disputes at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights 1991–2020: assessing thirty years of jurisprudence3
 … a substantial part of the trauma was caused by an accidental fall …  ’: liminal spaces and post-apartheid accountability in South Africa3
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 society3
Academic freedom between past and present: the birth of one-dimensional academia in Turkey3
‘Making the office a global technological leader’: digital evidence and technological innovation at the ICC3
The victimhood and reparative needs of Myanmar's Rohingya: towards effective reparations in international law3
Impact of clientelism on the rights of children in residential care: Cambodia and Myanmar3
Correction3
Feeding human rights: Jimmy Carter’s food politics for World Hunger3
The role of Criminal Justice in dealing with past atrocities in the Spanish and Argentine transitions: common grounds, but different pathways3
Surviving the pandemic: the livelihood struggles of undocumented Chinese immigrants in the UK3
‘Human rights’ in judicial judgement of China3
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
Constitutional review of criminal norms: does Indonesia need judicial activism?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 Kenya2
ECtHR jurisprudence amid political shifts: rolling back the protection against pushbacks2
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 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 Europe2
Limitation of rights in the times of the COVID-19 pandemic: a view from Kosovo’s Constitutional Court’s ‘shaky’ jurisprudence2
How human rights implementation by local authorities dealing with Traveller evictions could be improved – Exploring strategies through case study analysis in a Belgian municipality2
Protecting the right to housing in the era of financialisation: four principles for urban renewal2
From human rights documentation towards arts-based interventions: NGO collaborations with artists and the reimagining of human rights2
The role of international law in promoting and enforcing the rights of persons with disabilities2
Reaching the limit: access to remedy through nonjudicial mechanisms for victims of business-related human rights abuses2
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
Discrimination against persons of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities as a statelessness-generating factor?2
Revisiting universal jurisdiction through the victim’s right to an effective remedy: a victim-centred approach under the Convention against Torture2
Re-emphasizing the individual components of ‘child, early, and forced marriage’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 bloc2
Health, privacy and liberty: a call for digital governance during (and after) the pandemic2
#Papuanlivesmatter: how a narrative of racism has elevated West Papua’s decolonisation movement2
Locating the stigmatisation of children born of wartime rape on a continuum of violence2
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
More than documenting LGBTQ + narratives: a human rights activists’ perspective from Colombia’s truth commission2
Correction2
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 development2
The social public interest in China's employment anti-discrimination laws and its realisation paths2
A descriptive mixed-method study of legislation development pertaining to human rights with a focus on human trafficking in GCC countries2
Ecocide, environmental harm and framework integration at the International Criminal Court2
Human rights practices and college students’ attitudes towards the death penalty in China2
Applicability of the right to free elections clause of the ECHR to presidential elections: the case of Turkey's new presidential system1
The impact of hotel accommodation on asylum seekers’ mental health: a mixed methods study1
At-risk scholars in Europe: ‘academic humanitarianism’ in the name of science ‘here’ as opposed to the risk ‘there’1
Beyond sword and shield: the UN human rights system and criminal law1
From environmental war crimes to ecocide: lessons from Colombia’s transitional Justice1
Muddy waters: on the problematic political ecology of the Atrato ruling, Colombia1
Meaningful acknowledgement: how to evaluate acknowledgement in transitional justice interactions using deliberative reciprocity?1
How to think about the instrumental politics of mass rape: a critical appraisal of feminist approaches1
Compassion for change. Nurturing the motivation of staff in UN institutions dedicated to the promotion of human rights1
‘Human, all too human’: the anthropocentricisation of ecocide1
Reviving India’s river goddesses: ecocide, the human right to a healthy environment and rights of nature1
Supporting academic freedom as a human right: challenges and solutions in academic publishing1
Local authorities at the European Court of Human Rights1
Corporations and positive duties to fulfil socio-economic rights: developing international human rights law1
Abolishing the International Criminal Court1
Is academic freedom at risk from internationalisation? Results from a 2020 survey of UK social scientists1
Transitional justice and other-than-human harm: lessons from Colombia1
Punishing or regulating? US media attention to hate crime and speech1
Home country regulates outbound investment to fulfill human rights obligations-taking China as an example1
Displacing the displaced: the response to the protracted precarious situation of Syrian refugees in Türkiye during the Covid-19 pandemic1
Managing a rogue state: the case of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan1
Beyond liberal justice? Decolonising Colombian transitional justice through victims’ participation and indigenous rights1
Beyond legal personhood for the Whanganui River: collaboration and pluralism in implementing the Te Awa Tupua Act1
Psychosocial justice and the transformative turn in transitional justice1
The right to healthcare during the covid-19 pandemic under the European Convention on human rights1
Autonomous weapon systems and international criminal justice: is deterrence still possible?1
A contextual analysis of the evolution of transitional justice: the story of Taiwan1
Genuine commitment or search for prestige? Italy’s ambiguous foreign policy discourse on human rights1
Abortion, same-sex marriage, and gender identity during the Pink Tide: Venezuela compared to Latin American trends1
Children’s human rights in the contexts of domestic abuse and COVID-191
Intersections of ecocide, indigenous struggle, & pro-democracy conflict: implications of post-coup Myanmar for ecocide in international criminal law1
Reviewing the impact of COVID-19 on children’s rights to, in and through education1
Opportunistic oppression: U.S. migration restrictions and public health policy during the COVID-19 pandemic1
‘After rights’ is friendship: on abandonment, obligation and the stranger1
Seeking overlap and redundancy in human rights protection: reputation, consistency and the acceptance of the UN human rights treaties’ individual communications procedures1
Political, physical, and cultural techniques of genocide against the Rohingyas of Myanmar1
The right to education of adults in Portugal1
Roots of destruction: exploring the genocide-ecocide nexus through the destruction of olive trees in occupied Palestine and Rojava1
Impunity in cases of serious human rights violations: three relevant aspects of contention in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights1
Constitutional bills of rights and democratic transformation in post-authoritarian scenarios1
A human right to friendship? Dignity, autonomy, and social deprivation1
Between a rock and a hard place: academic freedom in globalising Chinese universities1
The genie of autonomy: steering mandatory mediation within human-rights limits1
From concern to condemnation: analysing the European parliament’s escalating human rights advocacy toward Iran1
The fragile relationship between the amended International Health Regulations and human rights law1
Are women not enslaved in Brazil? A data-driven analysis of gender dynamics in Brazilian antislavery efforts1
Silencing the ‘Guapinol Eight’: abuse of the Honduran criminal justice system to unjustly criminalise and punish human rights defenders1
The ping-pong strategy: confronting atrocities from the exile1
Deepfakes, big tech, and human rights challenges: examining the technology from a feminist legal lens1
After property? The Haitian Revolution, racial capitalism, and the foundation for a universal right to freedom from enslavement1
Protecting vulnerable groups in Europe: highlights from recent case law of the European Court of Human Rights1
Making pushback facts visible: a review of tools in existing case law and the procedural framework of the European Court of Human Rights1
A response to decentralised governance of human rights: a Children's Rights Approach in Wales1
The engagement to accountability continuum: how humanitarian and human rights organisations address human insecurity in North Korea1
Civil resistance campaign for the Free Papua Movement and student protests in 2019 in Surabaya, Indonesia1
Take me to the River: have riverine rights enhanced community participation in environmental governance within the Atrato River basin?1
Applying critical pedagogies to human rights education1
Human rights leadership in challenging times: an agenda for research and practice1
A review of the legitimacy of FIFA’s participation in Qatar’s human rights governance1
Neurotechnologies and human rights: restating and reaffirming the multi-layered protection of the person1
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