Publishing with the Journal of Human Rights Practice
The Journal of Human Rights Practice is the main academic journal focusing on human rights practice and activism. This online only journal covers all aspects of human rights activism, spanning professional and geographical boundaries.
There are many reasons to submit your work to the Journal of Human Rights Practice, including a simple submissions process, commitment to fair and inclusive peer review, and robust social media/marketing for your work.
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Excellent Author Experience
When publishing with the Journal of Human Rights Practice, your paper will benefit from the support of a diverse, experienced editorial board, which will maximize the international reach of your article. Additionally, the simple, online submissions portal via ScholarOne makes it easy to submit your work.
Our Editors will guide your manuscript through a double-anonymized peer review process with care and efficiency, helping you get your research published as quickly as possible while ensuring that only the highest quality research is published. Once a paper is accepted, the Journal of Human Rights Practice will publish a copyedited, proofed, corrected version of the paper online as soon as it is ready. This will later be included in a paginated issue.
Global Readership
The Journal of Human Rights Practice can connect your ideas with a global audience, to give your research the greatest possible impact.
Content from the Journal of Human Rights Practice may also be featured on our dedicated Twitter channels, @OxfordJournals, and @OUPLaw, along with our dedicated Facebook page.
Range of Content
The Journal of Human Rights Practice publishes three issues per year, comprising original research articles and book reviews, and aims to:
- Explore recent developments in research, documentation, and campaigning methodologies, and their implications for both the ethics and the efficacy of human rights practice.
- Hear from those who are breaking new ground in investigating and analyzing the potential of the international human rights framework as a vehicle for legislative, social, and cultural change through advocacy, mobilization, or education.
- Examine how human rights is being used in new and challenging ways to enhance the protection of individuals or of specific groups of persons, as well as the drawbacks of this framework.
- Engage with difficult questions: Is the human rights movement a mass movement or a professional elite, or both? Can prevention make up ground on the prevailing reactive approach to abuses? How have post 9/11 developments affected human rights defenders? Why have some issues, such as use of child soldiers, become a popular cause, while attempts to campaign for others, such as migrant workers, have mostly failed?
Thus, authors writing for the journal – whether activists or academics – need not be uncritical champions of the human rights project and its foundational texts. The journal is also a forum for those whose work has brought them into a more critical or even adversarial relationship with human rights discourse.
The Journal of Human Rights Practice is interdisciplinary, inviting perspectives from disciplines long associated with human rights, such as law, politics and international relations, as well as more disciplines in which scholarship has flourished more recently, such as anthropology. It encourages discussions with related fields of study such as development, criminology, or conflict-resolution, as well as exploring emerging links between human rights and issues such as public health, the environment, or corruption. While the journal’s focus is on the contemporary world, studies of historical cases, such as the American Civil Rights Movement or the negotiations over the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will also be encouraged, if they serve to illuminate current practice.
To explore content published in the journal, discover the latest issue, here.
Open Access
The Journal of Human Rights Practice is a hybrid open access journal and authors may choose to pay an open access fee to make their accepted manuscript freely available online. Learn more about OA and other licensing agreements here. Additionally, you may be able to publish open access in the journal for free as part of your institution’s inclusion in a read and publish agreement with Oxford University Press.
Article Metrics
Article-level metrics, including usage, citations, and Altmetric scores are available for all articles published in the journal, allowing you to understand the reach of your research, and the attention it is receiving online.
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