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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Please, get me called to The Hague!’ The international criminal court as history’s soapbox	36
The interior castle of conscience vs. new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnology	33
Refusing reconciliation with settler colonialism: wider lessons from the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission	27
Framing climate remedies in European human rights law: It is all about trust – in European democracies	20
Tracing the legal journey of petitions in the Uttarakhand High Court that became springboards for rights of rivers and nature in India	19
Moving lubunya in the age of rights: activist negotiations of lexical queerness and human rights	17
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	13
Safeguarding the rights of wrongly separated families as a result of disappearances	12
Filling statutory gaps: judicial lawmaking and its preventive function at the international criminal court	12
Diaspora transnationalism and transitional justice: theorising the politics of engagement	12
Respatialising the global imaginary of gay rights: resisting Africana epistemicide and forging Solidaristic Imaginaries	12
Political community disputes of indigenous women from Puno during the protests in opposition to the Boluarte Government in Peru	12
A tale of two sovereigns: the responsibility to protect and the competing notions of responsible sovereignty	11
Not fit for purpose: the limits of the UN guiding principles on business and human rights for governing artificial intelligence in the Global South	11
Protection of privacy in Bangladesh: issues, challenges and way forward	11
From New York to Geneva: advancing a new international human rights convention for older persons	10
The ‘Human Right to Science’ qua right to participate in science	10
Mobilising and constraining: the dynamics of human rights discourse in two Mexican social movements	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
Exploring evolving attitudes towards school violence at the European Court of Human Rights	9
Repoliticising indigenous participation: FPIC protocols in Canada and Brazil	9
On the concepts of human security, dignity and vulnerability: understanding the mechanisms of being ‘at risk’	9
Living in uncertainty: the dilemma of internally displaced persons seeking durable solutions in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia	9
Activist allyship, unspoken dilemma: deconstructing the tension between reproductive autonomy and disability justice	8

The West Papuan liberation movement, Indonesian settler colonialism and Western imperialism from an international solidarity perspective	8
Defining terrorism in the UK and the proscription of Palestine Action: a critical legal assessment	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
Universal human rights instruments and digital literacy of older persons	6
Genocide in the Spanish Civil War? Francoist repression in the light of international law	6
Sexual harassment in rural workplaces in India and the human rights discourse: a case study of select Hindi films	6
Intersectional challenges in post-trafficking reintegration of survivor women of trafficking	6
Measuring human rights? Vernacularisation and paradoxes of measurement in child poverty estimation	6
Human rights through the kaleidoscope: the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review	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
Internet access as a human right: insights from the empirical analysis of the UN international human rights framework	5
Justice for atrocities: dialogues and encounters between Latin America and Europe. Introduction to the special issue	5
Shifting sands: the future of children’s involvement in peace processes	5
Forest moralities, kindred knowledge and Sacha Runakuna : Kawsak Sacha as law	5
The role of the European Union’s securitisation policies in exacerbating the intersectional vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers	5
Introduction	5
Protecting the right to science in multilateral environmental agreements addressing chemicals and plastics pollution	5
Indigenous land disputes at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights 1991–2020: assessing thirty years of jurisprudence	4
The role of Criminal Justice in dealing with past atrocities in the Spanish and Argentine transitions: common grounds, but different pathways	4
Feeding human rights: Jimmy Carter’s food politics for World Hunger	4
The road (not) taken: implications of health-focused arguments for rights-based climate change litigation in Europe	4
Mapping corporate obligations towards the Rule of Law under international law	4
The violence of return: partition migration and human rights violations in Marichjhapi	4
Human rights in international law, state responsibilities and accountability mechanisms: a case study 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
State obligation and landmines: human rights of the disabled in the Islamic Republic of Iran	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
An Histoire Juridique Commune? Historiographical frames in European and Inter-American human rights narratives	4
Efficiency and exclusion? Technology and vulnerability at the European Court of Human Rights	4
Subsidiarity in the ECHR: an empty promise for local authorities?	4
Climate displacement and human rights: rectifying the current legal protection lacuna through international and regional solutions	4
Decolonising expert evidence in international law? Cultural and environmental rights’ litigation before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	4
Innovating in uncharted terrain: on interpretation and normative legitimacy in the CESCR’s General Comment No. 25 on the right to science	4
In the best interest of the child: a study on unaccompanied migrant children at the gateway to Spain	4
Admitting but not apologising: the Indonesian government’s confrontation with the 1965–1966 genocide	4
An examination of anti-personnel autonomous technology in weapons systems from the perspective of the right to life during an armed conflict	4
‘Male circumcision’ and ‘female genital mutilation’: why parents choose the procedures and the case for gender bias in medical nomenclature	4
‘I know about something called human rights’: claiming refugee rights through protest at UNHCR Beirut	3
Correction	3
The prevalence of identity among religious minorities in different human rights environments	3
‘Making the office a global technological leader’: digital evidence and technological innovation at the ICC	3
Adaptation of global gender norms in the practices of international humanitarian organisations: A comparative analysis of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the I	3
Impact of clientelism on the rights of children in residential care: Cambodia and Myanmar	3
‘ … a substantial part of the trauma was caused by an accidental fall … ’: liminal spaces and post-apartheid accountability in South Africa	3
‘Human rights’ in judicial judgement of China	3
The legal architecture of the right to food: normative foundations and differentiated functions of its four-fold interpretation	3
Exploring the role of regulation in urban citizenship practices: looking at Swiss and Turkish cities	3
Humans matter too: a misanthropic misunderstanding of ecocentrism is derailing the ecocide debate	3
Economic roots of media freedom: is income inequality a matter?	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
Anticipation and diplomacy (with)in science: activating the right to science for science diplomacy	3
Surviving the pandemic: the livelihood struggles of undocumented Chinese immigrants in the UK	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
Anti-trafficking or anti-migrant: rethinking the Philippine state’s role in global bordering architecture	3
Adaptation of global gender norms in the strategies, policies, and guidelines of international humanitarian organisations: a comparative analysis of the International Rescue Committee and the Internat	3
Between profits and people: a critical legal and criminological analysis of de facto ecocide in Jamaica's bauxite sector	3
Closing the circle of implementation: the sustainable development goals, universal periodic review, and the rights-based approach to development	2
Correction	2
Should a register be kept of conscientious objectors to euthanasia in Spain?	2
The victimhood and reparative needs of Myanmar's Rohingya: towards effective reparations in international law	2
Weaving Indigenous temporalities in energy transitions: reflections from the cracks	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
More than documenting LGBTQ + narratives: a human rights activists’ perspective from Colombia’s truth commission	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
Reaching the limit: access to remedy through nonjudicial mechanisms for victims of business-related human rights abuses	2
‘Is human rights protection entering the fast lane?’ – deficiencies in, and prospects of China’s autonomous driving legislation	2
Rethinking rights of nature through climate advisory proceedings	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
Civil society and access to justice: challenges of seeking remedy in the global fight against spyware	2
In the break (of rights and representation): sociality beyond the non/human subject	2
Cultural human rights as new foundations for interculturalist policies: a rights-based approach from Québec*	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
Prioritising human rights principles in synthetic biology innovation and patenting	2
A descriptive mixed-method study of legislation development pertaining to human rights with a focus on human trafficking in GCC countries	2
Ecocide, environmental harm and framework integration at the International Criminal Court	2
Torture manual: the military and the policing of Mexico’s war on drugs	2
Protecting the right to housing in the era of financialisation: four principles for urban renewal	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
Human rights practices and college students’ attitudes towards the death penalty in China	2
Anticipatory duties under the human right to science and international biomedical law	2
Challenging the rhetoric of ‘showbiz jobs’: human rights and feminist perspectives on trafficked women from Lahore, Pakistan, to the UAE	2
Discrimination against persons of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities as a statelessness-generating factor?	2
Rethinking the right to freedom of thought: on drug policy, neurotechnology, and the case for cognitive liberty	2
A new historical bloc and the political economy of international criminal prosecutions at the international criminal court	2
Locating the stigmatisation of children born of wartime rape on a continuum of violence	2
The social public interest in China's employment anti-discrimination laws and its realisation paths	2
Constitutional review of criminal norms: does Indonesia need judicial activism?	2
Sentencing ecocide: history, doctrine, theory	2
Re-emphasizing the individual components of ‘child, early, and forced marriage’	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