Human Rights, Human Security, and Victim Protection
State obligations, victim protection, migration, vulnerable groups, access to justice, supply chains, and international human rights standards.
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Journal of Human Rights and Transnational Organised Crime
A peer-reviewed, open-access international journal connecting scholarship, policy and practice on human rights and transnational organised crime.
Published biannually under the auspices of ECLER
Advancing research that protects human rights by understanding and confronting transnational organised crime.
HR-TOC provides an interdisciplinary forum for legal scholars, criminologists, public authorities, international organisations, practitioners, and civil society actors working at the intersection of human rights, constitutional order, criminal justice, international law, public policy, and emerging security threats.
Open accessFreely available worldwide
Double-blindIndependent peer review
BiannualTwo issues per year
Vol. 1First issue edited in July 2026
Thematic areas
Four connected research pillars
Transnational Crime, Criminal Networks, and Criminal Justice
Human trafficking, migrant smuggling, arms and drug trafficking, modern slavery, cybercrime, corruption, environmental crime, illicit finance, terrorism, and cooperation.
Constitutional Order, Rule of Law, and Legal Systems
How constitutional frameworks, courts, legal systems, and democratic institutions respond to transnational crime while safeguarding rights.
Information Integrity, Digital Governance, and Emerging Security Threats
Artificial intelligence, cyber threats, disinformation, foreign information manipulation and interference, digital evidence, and new governance models.
Current publication status
The first volume was edited in July 2026 and contains six articles. Article PDFs and the full volume PDF can be added to the Current Issue and Volumes & Archives pages when available.