Journal of Transnational Human Rights Research

About the Journal

Journal of Transnational Human Rights Research (JTHRR) was founded in July, 2022. The Journal is independent of any State affiliation with a truly diverse and global editorial and advisory board. It will be published bi-annually by Institute for Human Rights Research, an initiative of The Dialogue Box.

Volume 1 Issue 1 of JTHRR is published on 28th February 2023. The volume is available electronically.

Editor in Chief/Managing Editor

Wayne Ramwell, Senior Tutor, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Consulting Editor

Sébastien Lafrance, Adjunct Professor, Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia

Associate Editors

  1. Simitha Singam, Programme Co-Ordinator, Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), United Kingdom
  2. Ritabrata Roy, Doctoral Tutor, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
  3. Siddharth Mathur, Partner, Lex Protector L.L.P., India

Assistant Editors

  1. Asadulla Iqbal, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School, India
  2. Mohd. Imran, Lecturer, Villa College, Maldives
  3. Shahzeb Ahmed, Advocate, Supreme Court of India
  4. Rakshit Shrivastava, Advocate, Delhi High Court, India

Mission Statement

Our vision is to provide leading and innovative research in the field of human rights by critically exploring both its theoretical foundations and practical applications. Given the current gap that often exists between theory(ies) and practice(s), our journal is aimed at bridging them, especially with a view to increasing accessibility in this complex and wide ranging domain. Indeed, the very effectiveness of rights necessitates the movement away from what is increasingly mere high-sounding rhetoric towards a reflection of the realities on the ground, at least if this great human-centric project is to result in meaningful changes and endure over the centuries to come.


Issues

Cover

1. Editor’s Note                      
Wayne Ramwell   – pp. IV

2. Designing a roadmap for decriminalising petty offences in Africa                        
Stanley Ibe – pp. 1-12

3. Relevancy of the universalism versus cultural relativism debate for human rights protection in the 21st century                                                                                                           
Ahmed Ragib Chowdhury –  pp. 13-31

4. A legal perspective on secondary victimisation in Bangladesh: Contextualising with rape and Covid-19                                                                                                                     
Arifur Rahman and Suraya Ferdous  –  pp. 32-56

5. Rise of populism: Study of human rights situation in populist regimes of Asia    
Jatin Awasthi and Mimansha Roy – pp. 57-80

6. Women and traditional inheritance: Breaking the barriers of gender discrimination in Nigeria                                                                                                                                              
Benedict Okechukwu Agu –   pp. 81-104

7. Debating the existence of skin trafficking: Human rights response in India and Nepal              Susmita Paul and Pratiksha Rai – pp. 105-123

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Call for papers will release in April 2023.