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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Please, get me called to The Hague!’ The international criminal court as history’s soapbox	30
The interior castle of conscience vs. new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnology	29
Refusing reconciliation with settler colonialism: wider lessons from the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission	26
Tracing the legal journey of petitions in the Uttarakhand High Court that became springboards for rights of rivers and nature in India	24
Moving lubunya in the age of rights: activist negotiations of lexical queerness and human rights	19
Framing climate remedies in European human rights law: It is all about trust – in European democracies	15
The child’s right to freedom of expression in Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara	14
One-dimensional law: a critique of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment	12
Diaspora transnationalism and transitional justice: theorising the politics of engagement	11
Mobilising and constraining: the dynamics of human rights discourse in two Mexican social movements	11
Respatialising the global imaginary of gay rights: resisting Africana epistemicide and forging Solidaristic Imaginaries	11
Protection of privacy in Bangladesh: issues, challenges and way forward	11
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
Political community disputes of indigenous women from Puno during the protests in opposition to the Boluarte Government in Peru	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
Living in uncertainty: the dilemma of internally displaced persons seeking durable solutions in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia	9
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	9
Activist allyship, unspoken dilemma: deconstructing the tension between reproductive autonomy and disability justice	8
Exploring evolving attitudes towards school violence at the European Court of Human Rights	8
On the concepts of human security, dignity and vulnerability: understanding the mechanisms of being ‘at risk’	8
Admitting (to) the past: transitional justice in the European and Inter-American courts of human rights	7
Repoliticising indigenous participation: FPIC protocols in Canada and Brazil	7
Human rights through the kaleidoscope: the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review	7

Genocide in the Spanish Civil War? Francoist repression in the light of international law	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
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	5
Resurgent totalitarianism, charismatic dictatorship, and the rise of socio-political extremism in the age of globalisation and multiculturalism: an escalating human rights crisis	5
The role of the European Union’s securitisation policies in exacerbating the intersectional vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers	5
Internet access as a human right: insights from the empirical analysis of the UN international human rights framework	5
Introduction	5
Justice for atrocities: dialogues and encounters between Latin America and Europe. Introduction to the special issue	5
Localised medical moralities: organ trafficking and Israeli medical professionals	5
Shifting sands: the future of children’s involvement in peace processes	5
Mapping corporate obligations towards the Rule of Law under international law	5
Efficiency and exclusion? Technology and vulnerability at the European Court of Human Rights	4
Admitting but not apologising: the Indonesian government’s confrontation with the 1965–1966 genocide	4
The road (not) taken: implications of health-focused arguments for rights-based climate change litigation in Europe	4
Anticipation and diplomacy (with)in science: activating the right to science for science diplomacy	4
An Histoire Juridique Commune? Historiographical frames in European and Inter-American human rights narratives	4
Protecting the right to science in multilateral environmental agreements addressing chemicals and plastics pollution	4
‘Male circumcision’ and ‘female genital mutilation’: why parents choose the procedures and the case for gender bias in medical nomenclature	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
Climate displacement and human rights: rectifying the current legal protection lacuna through international and regional solutions	4
Forest moralities, kindred knowledge and Sacha Runakuna : Kawsak Sacha as law	4
Subsidiarity in the ECHR: an empty promise for local authorities?	4
In the best interest of the child: a study on unaccompanied migrant children at the gateway to Spain	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
Indigenous land disputes at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights 1991–2020: assessing thirty years of jurisprudence	3
Innovating in uncharted terrain: on interpretation and normative legitimacy in the CESCR’s General Comment No. 25 on the right to science	3
The prevalence of identity among religious minorities in different human rights environments	3
Cultural human rights as new foundations for interculturalist policies: a rights-based approach from Québec*	3
Between profits and people: a critical legal and criminological analysis of de facto ecocide in Jamaica's bauxite sector	3
‘Making the office a global technological leader’: digital evidence and technological innovation at the ICC	3
Correction	3
State obligation and landmines: human rights of the disabled in the Islamic Republic of Iran	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
Human rights in international law, state responsibilities and accountability mechanisms: a case study of Iran	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
Humans matter too: a misanthropic misunderstanding of ecocentrism is derailing the ecocide debate	3
Discrimination against persons of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities as a statelessness-generating factor?	3
The victimhood and reparative needs of Myanmar's Rohingya: towards effective reparations in international law	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
Decolonising expert evidence in international law? Cultural and environmental rights’ litigation before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	3
Feeding human rights: Jimmy Carter’s food politics for World Hunger	3
‘Human rights’ in judicial judgement of China	3
Exploring the role of regulation in urban citizenship practices: looking at Swiss and Turkish cities	3
Impact of clientelism on the rights of children in residential care: Cambodia and Myanmar	3
Economic roots of media freedom: is income inequality a matter?	3

Anti-trafficking or anti-migrant: rethinking the Philippine state’s role in global bordering architecture	3
‘ … a substantial part of the trauma was caused by an accidental fall … ’: liminal spaces and post-apartheid accountability in South Africa	3
‘I know about something called human rights’: claiming refugee rights through protest at UNHCR Beirut	3
From ‘raise the age’ to ‘raise the awareness’: how knowledge affects public opinion of the minimum age of criminal responsibility in Western Australia	2
Civil society and access to justice: challenges of seeking remedy in the global fight against spyware	2
Reaching the limit: access to remedy through nonjudicial mechanisms for victims of business-related human rights abuses	2
Revisiting universal jurisdiction through the victim’s right to an effective remedy: a victim-centred approach under the Convention against Torture	2
More than documenting LGBTQ + narratives: a human rights activists’ perspective from Colombia’s truth commission	2
Prioritising human rights principles in synthetic biology innovation and patenting	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
Correction	2
The role of international law in promoting and enforcing the rights of persons with disabilities	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
Re-emphasizing the individual components of ‘child, early, and forced marriage’	2
A new historical bloc and the political economy of international criminal prosecutions at the international criminal court	2
The duplication of the subject ‘people’ in the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: from colonial people to (Indigenous) non-state people	2
Locating the stigmatisation of children born of wartime rape on a continuum of violence	2
Rethinking the right to freedom of thought: on drug policy, neurotechnology, and the case for cognitive liberty	2
A descriptive mixed-method study of legislation development pertaining to human rights with a focus on human trafficking in GCC countries	2
In the break (of rights and representation): sociality beyond the non/human subject	2
‘Is human rights protection entering the fast lane?’ – deficiencies in, and prospects of China’s autonomous driving legislation	2
Human rights practices and college students’ attitudes towards the death penalty in China	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
From human rights documentation towards arts-based interventions: NGO collaborations with artists and the reimagining of human rights	2
Comparing universal jurisdiction in Europe and in Latin America: a vehicle for international justice or for colonial reckoning?	2
ECtHR jurisprudence amid political shifts: rolling back the protection against pushbacks	2
Constitutional review of criminal norms: does Indonesia need judicial activism?	2
Torture manual: the military and the policing of Mexico’s war on drugs	2
The social public interest in China's employment anti-discrimination laws and its realisation paths	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
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
Protecting the right to housing in the era of financialisation: four principles for urban renewal	2