The context of reparations
- Author: United Nations
- Main Title: Rule-of-law Tools for Post-conflict States , pp 9-13
- Publication Date: July 2008
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/2e11fdc5-en
- Language: English French
The very broad understanding of “reparations” that underlies the five categories
in the Basic Principles and Guidelines—an understanding that is closely tied to the more general
category of “legal remedies”—is perfectly consistent with the recent trend to look for
complementarity among justice measures. There are binding obligations to provide these five kinds of
measures. However, the five categories go well beyond the mandate of any reparations programme to
date: no reparations programme has been thought to be responsible for “distributing” the set of
“benefits” grouped under the categories of satisfaction and, especially, of guarantees of
non-repetition in the Basic Principles and Guidelines. Indeed, it can be argued that the five
categories in the Basic Principles and Guidelines overlap with the sort of holistic transitional
justice policy that the Secretary-General recommends in his report on the rule of law and
transitional justice.
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ISBN (PDF):
9789211561722
Book DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18356/b4166c36-en
Related Subject(s):
International Law and Justice
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