Related outputs for Human Rights

Our research on Human Rights works across Philosophy, History, Political Sciences, Social Sciences and Law.

2025

Duties of persons with disabilities under the African disability rights protocol: a sceptical argument

Onazi O (2025) Duties of persons with disabilities under the African disability rights protocol: a sceptical argument. Human Rights Law Review, 25 (2). https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngaf004

Decolonising Disability Studies: Conceptualising Disability Justice from an African relational community ideal

Onazi O Decolonising Disability Studies: Conceptualising Disability Justice from an African relational community ideal. In: Disability Intersectional Colonialities: Embodied Colonial Violence and Practices of Resistance at the Axis of Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Class, and Gender. 1st Edition ed. Interdisciplinary Disability Studies. London: Routledge, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003280422

Unpacking the Relationship between State and NGO Recommendations in the UPR Process: Potential for Influence or Alignment?

Etone D & Vasilliades E (2025) Unpacking the Relationship between State and NGO Recommendations in the UPR Process: Potential for Influence or Alignment?. African Journal of International and Comparative Law.

Children, Rights and Temporality

Lott N & Kirk T (2025) Children, Rights and Temporality. Child and Family Law Quarterly.

COVID-19 Children's Rights And The Minimum Age Of Criminal Responsibility

Kirk T, Brown A & Wishart H (2025) COVID-19 Children's Rights And The Minimum Age Of Criminal Responsibility. Child and Family Law Quarterly.

Non-Governmental Organisation Accountability

Carolei D (2025) Non-Governmental Organisation Accountability. In: Flinders M, Dimova G & Monaghan C (eds.) in Flinders M., Dimova G., Monaghan C. (eds) Understanding accountability: New perspectives on a fractured world, pp. 245-264. https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-Accountability-New-Perspectives-on-a-Fractured-World/Flinders-Dimova-Monaghan/p/book/9781032588483?srsltid=AfmBOoraJSBZg3yGeXKhd0CMpTN4xgWl8djW_sJMVwgygG8d_SJdhp64

NGO–NGO Conflict: The Legal Case of Survival International v. WWF

Carolei D (2025) NGO–NGO Conflict: The Legal Case of Survival International v. WWF. In: Zarnegar Deloffre M & Quack S (eds.) "A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics: Beyond Cooperation and Competition". Oxford University PressOxford, pp. 35-59. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198942757.003.0003

2024

Human Rights and the UN Universal Periodic Review Mechanism: A Research Companion
D Etone D, Nazir A, Storey A (2024) Routledge Taylor & Francis https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003415992

Scots law, 16- and 17-year-olds and the UNCRC: balancing autonomy and protection
Kirk T (2024) Scots law, 16- and 17-year-olds and the UNCRC: balancing autonomy and protection. Edinburgh Law Review.

Decolonising Disability Studies: Conceptualising Disability Justice from an African relational community ideal
Onazi O (2024) Decolonising Disability Studies: Conceptualising Disability Justice from an African relational community ideal. In: Disability Intersectional Colonialities: Embodied Colonial Violence and Practices of Resistance at the Axis of Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Class, and Gender. 1st Edition ed. Interdisciplinary Disability Studies. London: Routledge, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003280422

Recognizing the Right to a Healthy Environment at the Council of Europe: Why Does it Matter?
Heri C, Nordlander L & Savaresi A (2024) Recognizing the Right to a Healthy Environment at the Council of Europe: Why Does it Matter?. Environmental Rights Review, 1 (2). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10634738

Super-Networks Shaping International Agreements: Comparing the Climate Change and Nuclear Weapons Arenas
Schapper A & Dee M (2024) Super-Networks Shaping International Agreements: Comparing the Climate Change and Nuclear Weapons Arenas. International Studies Quarterly, 68 (1), Art. No.: sqad105. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqad105

2023

Non-Governmental Organisations and the Law: Self-Regulation and Accountability
Carolei D (2023) Non-Governmental Organisations and the Law: Self-Regulation and Accountability. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003221838

The South African National Protection System
Etone D (2023) The South African National Protection System. In: Ramcharan B, Magazzeni G, M'Bikay M & French I (eds.) A Global Handbook on National Human Rights Protection Systems. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill/Nijhoff. https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/64050?rskey=TaUTAd&result=3

The Universal Periodic Review and Transitional Justice
Etone D The Universal Periodic Review and Transitional Justice. In: TBC. London: Routledge.

Children as Covert Human Intelligence Sources: Spies First, Children Second
Arthur R & Kirk T (2023) Children as Covert Human Intelligence Sources: Spies First, Children Second. Youth Justice, 23 (3), pp. 372-387. https://doi.org/10.1177/14732254231154160

Rights
Cruft R (2023) Rights. In: Bellamy R & King J (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory. Cambridge Law Handbooks. Camridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-handbook-of-constitutional-theory/DD926AE0A50620E6D798C5E678A49ED5

The Right to a Healthy Environment and Climate Litigation: A Game Changer?
de Vilchez P & Savaresi A (2023) The Right to a Healthy Environment and Climate Litigation: A Game Changer?. Yearbook of International Environmental Law, 32 (1), pp. 3-19. https://doi.org/10.1093/yiel/yvac064

International human rights bodies and climate litigation: Don't look up
Luporini R & Savaresi A (2023) International human rights bodies and climate litigation: Don't look up. Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law, 32 (2). https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12491

Mandatory due diligence laws and climate change litigation: Bridging the corporate climate accountability gap?
Rajavuori M, Savaresi A & van Asselt H (2023) Mandatory due diligence laws and climate change litigation: Bridging the corporate climate accountability gap?. Regulation & Governance. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12518

Climate Justice: Ethical Aspects and Policy Aspects
Bartmann M, Halsband A & Schapper A (2023) Climate Justice: Ethical Aspects and Policy Aspects. Ethik in den Biowissenschaften – Sachstandsberichte des DRZE. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber/ Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783495993798

Strengthening the Sustainable Development Goals through integration with human rights
Bexell M, Hickmann T & Schapper A (2023) Strengthening the Sustainable Development Goals through integration with human rights. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 23, pp. 133-139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-023-09605-x

2022

An International Ombudsman to make non-governmental organizations more accountable? Too good to be true …
Carolei D (2022) An International Ombudsman to make non-governmental organizations more accountable? Too good to be true …. Leiden Journal of International Law, 35 (4), pp. 867-886. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0922156522000474

Accountability beyond Corporations: The Applicability of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises to Non-profit Organisations
Carolei D (2022) Accountability beyond Corporations: The Applicability of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises to Non-profit Organisations. Nonprofit Policy Forum, 13 (1), pp. 31-47. https://doi.org/10.1515/npf-2020-0024

Unsafe from Any Angle: Vulnerability-Generation on the US-Canada Border
Frenyo E (2022) Unsafe from Any Angle: Vulnerability-Generation on the US-Canada Border. Laws, 11 (3), Art. No.: 44. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws11030044

Remote justice: information rights as a tool of empowerment
Egan M (2022) Remote justice: information rights as a tool of empowerment. International Review of Law, Computers & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600869.2022.2060465

Rights, Positivism, and the Vice of Self-Puffery: Why Kramer’s Interest Theory is Nearly Right
Cruft R (2022) Rights, Positivism, and the Vice of Self-Puffery: Why Kramer’s Interest Theory is Nearly Right. In: Without Trimmings: The Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy of Matthew Kramer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 37-C2.N39. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198868866.003.0002

Communication and Rights
Cruft R (2022) Communication and Rights. In: Being Social: The Philosophy of Social Human Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 171-187. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198871194.003.0010

Journalism and Press Freedom as Human Rights
Cruft R (2022) Journalism and Press Freedom as Human Rights. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 39 (3), pp. 359-376. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12566

On Rights, Human Rights, and Property: A Response
Cruft R (2022) On Rights, Human Rights, and Property: A Response. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 39 (2), pp. 220-232. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12507

What Obligations should be owed to [African] People with Disabilities?
Onazi O (2022) What Obligations should be owed to [African] People with Disabilities?. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 18 (1&2), p. 27.

“Resisting Apathy and Antipathy for Community in Human-Rights and Development Discourse: Locality, Human Interdependence and Participation
Onazi O (2022) “Resisting Apathy and Antipathy for Community in Human-Rights and Development Discourse: Locality, Human Interdependence and Participation. In: Beyond Law and Development: Resistance, Empowerment and Social Justice. 1st ed. Law, Development and Globalisation. London: Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780203745298/beyond-law-development-sam-adelman-abdul-paliwala; https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203745298

2021

Accountability for Human Rights: Applying Business and Human Rights Instruments to Non-Governmental Organizations
Carolei D & Bernaz N (2021) Accountability for Human Rights: Applying Business and Human Rights Instruments to Non-Governmental Organizations. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 13 (3), pp. 507-528. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huab042

Addressing Environmental Harm in Conflicts within Africa: Scope for International Criminal Law?
Etone D (2021) Addressing Environmental Harm in Conflicts within Africa: Scope for International Criminal Law?. In: Paulose RM (ed.) Green Crimes and International Criminal Law. Series in Law. Wilmington, DE, USA: Vernon Press, pp. 65-106. https://vernonpress.com/book/1139

Exploring female lawyers' competence in Ghanaian law firms: clients' perspective
Quartey SH, Akuffo-Kwapong B & Etone D (2021) Exploring female lawyers' competence in Ghanaian law firms: clients' perspective. International Journal of the Legal Profession. https://doi.org/10.1080/09695958.2020.1863218

Is There a Right to Internet Access?
Cruft R (2021) Is There a Right to Internet Access?. In: Véliz C (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. C4.S1-C4.N27. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198857815.013.4

2020

Economic and Social Rights Law: Incorporation, Justiciability and Principles of Adjudication
Boyle K (2020) Economic and Social Rights Law: Incorporation, Justiciability and Principles of Adjudication. Routledge Research in Human Rights Law. Abingdon: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group. https://www.routledge.com/Economic-and-Social-Rights-Law-Incorporation-Justiciability-and-Principles/Boyle/p/book/9781138298880

The Right to an Effective Remedy and Accountability in the Privatisation of Public Services
Boyle K (2020) The Right to an Effective Remedy and Accountability in the Privatisation of Public Services. European Human Rights Law Review, 2020 (6), pp. 610-623.

The First Minister’s Advisory Group on Human Rights Leadership: A New Path Forward on Incorporation of Economic, Social Cultural and Environmental Rights

The Human Rights Council:The Impact of the Universal Periodic Review in Africa
Etone D (2020) The Human Rights Council:The Impact of the Universal Periodic Review in Africa. Routledge Research in Human Rights Law. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Human-Rights-Council-The-Impact-of-the-Universal-Periodic-Review-in/Etone/p/book/9780367182496

Nigeria's Engagement with The Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review: Potential for Acculturation or Risk of Regression?
Etone D (2020) Nigeria's Engagement with The Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review: Potential for Acculturation or Risk of Regression?. African Journal of International and Comparative Law, 28 (2), pp. 267-297. https://doi.org/10.3366/ajicl.2020.0313

2019

Doping and Human Rights in Pariah States
McArdle D (2019) Doping and Human Rights in Pariah States. In: Duval A & Rigozzi A (eds.) Yearbook of International Sports Arbitration 2017. Yearbook of International Sports Arbitration. The Hague: TMC Asser Press, pp. 29-49. https://doi.org/10.1007/15757_2019_28

Boyle K (2019) The First Minister’s Advisory Group on Human Rights Leadership: A New Path Forward on Incorporation of Economic, Social Cultural and Environmental Rights. European Human Rights Law Review, 2019 (4), pp. 361-373.Human Rights, Ownership and the Individual

Cruft R (2019) Human Rights, Ownership and the Individual. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Savaresi A (2019) Human Rights and Climate Change
In: Honkonen T & Romppanen S (eds.) International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy Review 2018. UNEP Course Series, 18. Joensuu, Finland: Law School of University of Eastern Finland, pp. 31-46. https://www3.uef.fi/documents/241889/1866768/Review+2018+final+HR+and+Env.pdf/0742c83d-a95a-4c3d-946e-de6f7ddeb58d

Manipulation and Domestic Abuse in Contested Contact - Threats to Children's Participation Rights
Morrison F, Tisdall EKM & Callaghan JEM (2020) Manipulation and Domestic Abuse in Contested Contact - Threats to Children's Participation Rights. Family Court Review, 58 (2), pp. 403-416. https://doi.org/10.1111/fcre.12479

Constituents with Convictions: Human Rights, Voting and Citizenship in Scottish Prisons
Graham H (2019) Constituents with Convictions: Human Rights, Voting and Citizenship in Scottish Prisons. HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland Independent Prison Monitoring Conference 2019, Stirling, 16.11.2019-16.11.2019.

Academic Advisory Panel to the National Taskforce for Human Rights Leadership: The Meaning and Content of Duties to be Considered for Inclusion in the Bill

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Academic Advisory Panel Briefing Paper: Access to Justice for Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights Principles of Adjudication 1 September 2020
Boyle K (2021) Academic Advisory Panel Briefing Paper: Access to Justice for Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights Principles of Adjudication 1 September 2020. National Task Force on Human Rights Leadership. The Scottish Government.

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