The climate crisis will continue to affect human and natural systems across Latin America
and the Caribbean (LAC). Undoubtedly, this jeopardizes entire communities' enjoyment of …

This article investigates determinants of representation in international human rights bodies.
It is argued that socioeconomic factors shape whether human rights abuses translate into …

Quantitative research into the effectiveness of the UN human rights treaty bodies (UNTBs) in
eliciting remedial responses from states is impeded by a lack of usable data on how states …

Can individual participation in international legal institutions affect state behavior? Much of
the existing literature believes that international law has a limited effect in the countries …

This paper introduces the concept of dialogic oversight, a process by which judicial bodies
monitor compliance through a combination of mandated state reporting, third-party …

Are agreements between states and victims an effective way to achieve reparations for
human rights violations? We identify and evaluate a legal instrument hitherto ignored in …

Human rights bodies formulate highly specific orders to minimize the risk of State non-
compliance. However, specificity comes at a cost, reducing State autonomy when local …

This article aims to examine human rights violations resulting from the US-led agenda as a
national strategic project, specifically the Willow Project. This project is a consequence of …

Transitional justice—ie, how societies respond to the legacies of massive and systematic
human rights violations—has become an important scholarly field as well as a political and …