IJHR

📢 New Research! How is #humanrights discourse shaping judicial decisions in #China? 🇨🇳⚖️ 2,760 docs/ 31 provincial regions reveal how judges/ litigants use human rights arguments in judicial cases. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… By Yonghe Zhang & Xiaoyi Huang

📢 New study finds crime rates dropped in 8 out of 11 countries after abolishing capital punishment. Authors: Joseph Paul Essien, Maduka Enyimba and Thomas Egaga Ushie Read: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #HumanRights

What is the psychological toll of hotel accommodation on asylum seekers in the UK? Authors: Janelle Spira, Hannah Wright, Kemi Komolafe and Christina Kushnir Access article for free: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #HumanRights

🚨This powerful article argues that true justice for extractivist harm must confront not only the damage done to people, but to land, culture, and collective futures. 🔗  Access for FREE here:tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #HumanRights #Ecocide #Genocide

What happens when formal justice systems overlook spiritual dimensions of healing? Fangyi Li @EdinburghUni explores how survivors in #Cambodia & #Timor-Leste seek justice through Buddhist merit-making & Indigenous death rituals. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #HumanRights

🌊 NEW RESEARCH: When rivers become legal persons Within months, Colombia, New Zealand & India all granted legal personhood to major rivers. Full article by Rahul Ranjan + Axel Borchgrevink: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #RightsOfNature

📖 New in IJHR: Explore how civil society actors navigate risk, politics & ethics in #NorthKorea. A vital read for those in #HumanRights Open Access (free): tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… ✍️ Katie Sophie Gonser

🌱Can rivers, forests & lands be victims of war? #Colombia’s transitional justice process says yes — with revolutionary implications. Read the full open-access article by Rachel Killean and Elizabeth Newton. 🔗tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #HumanRights #RightsOfNature #Ecocide

The #ICC can’t be fixed — it must be dismantled, says Charlotte Carney, University of Sydney The article argues the court is built on punishment, inequality & colonial thinking. Abolition offers a way forward. Read it here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #HumanRights

New article on housing justice: When emergency aid ends, what fills the gap? Study of eviction clinics in #NewHampshire shows that legal support alone isn't enough... Read here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Authors: @SindisoMW Mnisi Weeks / @AKarwashan #Housingcrisis #HumanRights

📚 New Article: "The concept of vulnerability and its relation to the concepts of inequality and discrimination" Monika Mayrhofer finds: "Vulnerability" can mask the real causes of injustice & might not always help build fairer systems tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #HumanRights

How is public discourse on #hatespeech evolving? New study finds #USA media attention has shifted from a focus on prosecution to regulation — with growing emphasis on platform responsibility/online hate. 🔗 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Seungyeon Yang & Jeong-Woo Koo #HumanRights

🔍 Justice for Atrocities: Dialogues & Encounters between Latin America and Europe — new special issue out now! 🔹 Lessons from exile, amnesty & universal jurisdiction 🔗tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… ✍️@MarcoLongobardo @JPPerez2014

📢 New study explores how undocumented Chinese immigrants in the #UK navigated COVID-19. 🔗 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #HumanRights

Essential reading for those concerned with human rights, state violence, and justice in #LatinAmerica. 🔗 Full article here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Author Thairi Moya Sánchez (@dirittointerucm) #HumanRights #Venezuela #TransitionalJustice #RacialJustice

🚨 New #OpenAccess article! The #ECtHR’s ‘domestication’ of #climatechange narrows protections & limits climate justice. Dr. Corina Heri (@cohelongo) explains how the Court frames climate as a domestic issue, sidelining global equity concerns. Read: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📢 #OpenAccess Article: How do justice, rights, and knowledge production intersect in the #Rojava #revolution? Explores the feminist movement of #Jineolojî and its implications for decolonial justice. 🔗 Read more: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… ✍️ Hasret Cetinkaya #HumanRights

Targeted killings, forced displacement, and systemic dehumanization have left the #Banyamulenge in Eastern #DRC besieged and starved. A must-read piece by Delphin Rukumbuzi Ntanyoma (@Delphino12). Open access article here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #HumanRights #genocide

⚖️ The @IntlCrimCourt is under intense scrutiny—this article from October last year by @lucyjgaynor should make useful reading. Article (open + free access): tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #InternationalJustice #ICC #HumanRights #LawAndPolitics

🚨 New Open Access Article 🚨 📝 ‘#Stoptheboats’: deterrence of asylum seekers from the perspective of Australian medical professionals by @Ebony_Birchall Read the full article here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #HumanRights #Refugees #Australia