Article

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2024) Politicisation of human rights: current battlegrounds and sites of contestation. University of Western Australia Law Review, 51 (1). pp. 1-22. ISSN 0042-0328

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Auchmuty, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0792-3978 (2022) Die Wahl der ­Geschlechtsidentität untergräbt den Feminismus. Schweizer Monat, 1092 (66). ISSN 0036-7400

Lemay-Hébert, N. and Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2021) Appraising the socio-economic turn in reparations: transitional justice for Cholera victims in Haiti. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 15 (3). pp. 533-552. ISSN 1752-7716 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijab020

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026, Lemay-Hebert, N. and Monroy-Santander, L. (2021) Seeking justice for the victims of cholera in Haiti: framing the reparations debate through transitional justice. Human Rights Quarterly, 43 (3). pp. 567-585. ISSN 0275-0392 doi: https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2021.0040

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Lemay-Hebert, N. (2020) The Security Council in practice: Haiti, cholera, and the elected members of the United Nations Security Council. Leiden Journal of International Law, 33 (1). pp. 157-176. ISSN 1478-9698 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156519000633

Blakemore, S. and Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2019) Safeguarding in conflict and crisis. Forced Migration Review (61). pp. 52-55. ISSN 1460-9819

Blakemore, S., Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Lemay-Hébert, N. (2019) Child safeguarding in a peacekeeping context: lessons from Liberia. Development in Practice, 29 (6). pp. 735-747. ISSN 1364-9213 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2019.1614148

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2018) UNaccountable: a new approach to peacekeepers and sexual abuse. European Journal of International Law, 29 (3). pp. 961-985. ISSN 1464-3596 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chy039

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Houghton, R. (2017) Two steps forward, one step back: politicisation of the Human Rights Council. Human Rights Law Review, 17 (4). pp. 753-769. ISSN 1744-1021 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngx027

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2016) UN-Accountable? A response to Devika Hovell. AJIL Unbound, 110. 8.

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Mchangama, J. (2016) Expanding or diluting Human Rights? The proliferation of United Nations Special Procedures mandates. Human Rights Quarterly, 38 (1). pp. 164-193. ISSN 1085-794X doi: https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2016.0012

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Lemay-Hebert, N. (2015) ”Jistis ak reparasyon pou tout viktim kolera MINUSTAH”: the United Nations and the right to health in Haiti. Leiden Journal of International Law, 28 (3). pp. 507-527. ISSN 1478-9698 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156515000278

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Lemay-Hebert, N. (2015) Towards an alternative interpretation of U.N. immunity: a human rights-based approach to the Haiti cholera Case. QIL - Questions of International Law, Zoom-in (19). pp. 5-18. ISSN 2284-2969

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2014) Third generation’ rights: is there room for hybrid constructs within International Human Rights Law? Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2 (4). pp. 935-959. ISSN 2050-1714 doi: https://doi.org/10.7574/cjicl.02.04.134

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2014) UN immunity or impunity? A human rights based challenge. European Journal of International Law, 25 (1). pp. 239-254. ISSN 1464-3596 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/cht082

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2012) The United Nations Human Rights Council: More of the same? Wisconsin Journal of International Law, 31 (2). pp. 209-251.

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2011) New Mechanisms of the UN Human Rights Council. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 29 (3). pp. 289-323.

Heinze, E. and Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2010) Public Awareness of Human Rights: Distortions in the Mass Media. International Journal of Human Rights, 14 (4). pp. 491-523.

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2010) The United States and the Human Rights Council: an early assessment. St Thomas Law Review, 23 (1). pp. 23-70.

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2009) Improvement on the Commission?: The UN Human Rights Council’s Inaction on Darfur. University of California-Davis Journal of International Law & Policy, 16 (1). pp. 81-129.

Book or Report Section

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2025) Accountability at the Human Rights Council. In: Duin, M. and Henrard, K. (eds.) Research Handbook on the Accountability for Human Rights Violations. Edward Elgar. (In Press)

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2024) International human rights law. In: Evans, M. (ed.) International Law, 6th Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192848642 (In Press)

Lemay-Hébert, N. and Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2024) Contention, lawfare and the normalization of dissent: how the UN silenced the campaign for accountability in Haiti. In: Taming Dissent. The Capture of Critical Voices in International Politics. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2024) The United Nations and Israel: antizionism and antisemitism. In: Brustein, W. and Michlic, J. (eds.) A Companion to Global Antisemitism. Wiley-Blackwell. (In Press)

Blakemore, S., Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Lemay-Hébert, N. (2023) Safeguarding children from sexual exploitation and abuse in peace operations: lessons for the future. In: Gilder, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8861-1433, Curran, D., Holmes, G. and Edu-Afful, F. (eds.) Multidisciplinary Futures of UN Peace Operations. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 223-244. ISBN 9783031385957

Auchmuty, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0792-3978 and Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2023) Sex and gender in law. In: Sullivan, A. and Todd, S. (eds.) Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader. Routledge. ISBN 9781032261201

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Gordon, S. (2022) Civil society and the UN human rights system. In: Ramcharan, B., Brett, R., Clark, A. M. and Parker, P. (eds.) The Protection Roles of Human Rights NGOs. International Studies in Human Rights (140). Brill, pp. 132-148. ISBN 9789004516779 doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004516786_009

Broecker, C. and Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2022) Office of the high commissioner for human rights. In: Binder, C., Nowak, M., Hofbauer, J. A. and Janig, P. (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781789903614 doi: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903621.office.high.commissioner.human.rights

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Gordon, S. (2021) An international law perspective on the challenges confronting the Human Rights Council. In: von Arnauld, A., von der Decken, K. and Matz-Lück, N. (eds.) German Yearbook of International Law. Duncker & Humblot. (In Press)

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2020) The council and commission on human rights. In: Mégret, F. and Alston, P. (eds.) The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198298373

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2020) Transnational engagements: cultural and religious practices related to menstruation. In: Maharaj, T. and Winkler, I. T. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies. Springer, pp. 163-174. ISBN 9789811506147 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0614-7_15

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Houghton, R. (2019) Dissecting the institution: A response to Jan Klabbers. In: Fassbender, B. and Traisbech, K. (eds.) The Limits of Human Rights. Oxford University Press, pp. 167-174. ISBN 9780198824763

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Lemay-Hebert, N. (2019) Between a rock and a hard place – immunities of the United Nations and human rights. In: Ruys, T., Angelet, N. and Ferro, L. (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Immunities and International Law. Cambridge University Press, pp. 579-594. ISBN 9781108283632 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108283632.029

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Lemay-Hebert, N. (2018) Hydridity. In: Di Leo, J. R. (ed.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory. Bloomsbury, pp. 521-522. ISBN 9781350012806

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Lemay-Hebert, N. (2017) Critical hybridity: exploring cultural, legal and political pluralism. In: Lemay-Hebert, N. and Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (eds.) Hybridity: Law, Culture and Development. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 3-14. ISBN 9781138673427

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Lottholtz, P. (2017) Peace as a hybrid human right: a new way to realise human rights, or entrenching their systematic failure? In: Lemay-Hébert, N. and Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (eds.) Hybridity: Law, Culture and Development. Routledge. ISBN 9781138673427

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Crepeau, F. (2017) Supporting or resisting? The relationship between global north states and special procedures. In: Nolan, A., Freedman, R. and Murphy, T. (eds.) The United Nations Special Procedures System. Nottingham Studies on Human Rights. Brill. ISBN 9789004304697

Nolan, A., Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Murphy, T. (2017) The United Nations Special Procedures system: introduction. In: Nolan, A., Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Murphy, T. (eds.) The United Nations Special Procedures System. Nottingham Studies on Human Rights. Brill. ISBN 9789004304697

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2015) Hybrid human rights. In: Jackson, P. (ed.) Handbook of international security and development. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 386-401. ISBN 9781781955529

Report

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026, (2023) The opposition of models and narratives in the field of human rights. Report. Publications Office of the European Union, Brussels. pp49. ISBN 9789284804597 doi: https://doi.org/10.2861/50887

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and O'Donoghue, A., (2018) United Nations Gender Network: United Nations policy proposal on gender equality and parity. Report. United Nations Gender Network doi: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3114056

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026, Blakemore, S., Dressler, A. and Lemay-Hébert, N., (2018) Safeguarding children from UN peacekeeper sexual exploitation and abuse in Haiti. Report. University of Reading

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026, Blakemore, S., Dressler, A. and Lemay-Hébert, N., (2018) Safeguarding children from UN peacekeeper sexual exploitation and abuse in Uruguay. Report. University of Reading

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026, Blakemore, S. and Barker, C., (2017) Safeguarding children from UN peacekeeper sexual exploitation and abuse in Liberia. Report. University of Reading

Conference or Workshop Item

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026, O'Donoghue, A. and Doherty, S. (2018) UN gender network workshop III: report. In: UN Gender Network Workshop III, 14th November 2017, Durham University. doi: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3106897

O'Donoghue, A. and Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2017) United Nations gender network: first workshop report. In: UN Gender Network Workshop I, 28 Mar 2017, Reading University. doi: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2990391

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026, O'Donoghue, A. and Doherty, S. (2017) United Nations gender network: second workshop report. In: UN Gender Network Workshop II, 13th May 2017, Foreign and Commonwealth Office London.

Book

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Hirsch, D., eds. (2024) Responses to 7 October: antisemitic discourse. Studies in Contemporary Antisemitism. Routledge. ISBN 9781032804309 doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003497295

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Hirsch, D., eds. (2024) Responses to 7 October: law and society. Studies in Contemporary Antisemitism. Routledge, pp128. ISBN 9781032804781 doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003497417

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Hirsh, D., eds. (2024) Responses to 7 October: universities. Studies in Contemporary Antisemitism. Routledge, pp130. ISBN 9781032804804 doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003497424

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026, Lemay-Hebert, N. and Wills, S. (2021) The law and practice of peacekeeping: foregrounding human rights. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108763776 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108763776

Lemay-Hebert, N. and Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026, eds. (2017) Hybridity: Law, culture and development. Routledge, pp320. ISBN 9781138673427

Nolan, A., Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and Murphy, T. (2017) The United Nations Special Procedures system. Brill, pp472. ISBN 9789004304697 doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004304703

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2014) Failing to protect: the UN and the politicisation of human rights. Hurst & Company, London, pp238. ISBN 9781849044103

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 (2013) The UN Human Rights Council: a critique and early assessment. Routledge, London, pp332. ISBN 9780415640329