External Resources
International documents addressing reparations for victims of gross violations of human rights
- Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law (Arabic version)
- Nairobi Declaration on the Right of Women and Girls to a Remedy and Reparation
- Guidance note of the United Nations Secretary-General: Reparations for conflict‐related sexual violence (Arabic version)
- Guidance Note of the Secretary-General: United Nations Approach to Transitional Justice
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence on reparation, 2014, A/69/518 (Arabic version)
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women on reparations to women that have been subjected to violence in contexts of both peace and post-conflict, 2010, A/HRC/14/22 (Arabic version)
Other texts on reparations
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Reconciliation
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Transitional Justice
- Reparation for Victims of Armed Conflict: Impulses From the Max Planck Trialogues – Christian Marxsen, Anne Peters (eds)
- The right to reparation: laudable goal or empty promise? By Bojan Gavrilovic
- Options for Justice: A Handbook for Designing Accountability Mechanisms for Grave Crimes – Open Society Justice Initiative
- Rule of Law Tools for Post-Conflict States: Reparations Programmes – Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
- More Than Words: Apologies as a Form of Reparation – ICTJ
- The Right to Reparations in Situations of Poverty – ICTJ
- Forms of Justice: A Guide to Designing Reparations Application Forms and Registration Processes for Victims of Human Rights Violations (Arabic version) – ICTJ
- Global Reparations Practice – ICTJ
- Articulating Minimum Standards on Reparations Programmes in Response to Mass Violations – Redress
- Reparation: A Sourcebook for Victims of Torture and Other Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law – Redress
- Reparations after Conflict Related Sexual Violence: the Long Road in the Western Balkans by Sabine Freizer
- Closing the gap: symbolic reparations and armed groups by Ron Dudai
- Healing the Spirit: Reparations for Survivors of Sexual Violence Related to the Armed Conflict in Kosovo, OHCHR
- The Importance of a Participatory Reparations Process and its Relationship to the Principles of Reparation by Maria Suchkova
- Reparation for Victims of Armed Conflict: Impulses from the Max Planck Trialogues, Research Paper No. 2018-2019
- The Fortunate Ones and the Ones Still Waiting: Reparations for War Victims in Sierra Leone by Eva Ottendörfer
- Beyond Killing: Gender, Genocide, and Obligations Under International Law, Global Justice Center
Iraq related texts
- Mobilizing for Gender-Sensitive Reparations: Iraq’s Yazidi Survivors Law and Civil Society – Güley Bor
- Reparations for the Victims of Conflict in Iraq: Lessons learned from comparative practice – Clara Sandoval and Miriam Puttick
- Mosul after the Battle: Reparations for civilian harm and the future of Ninewa – Khaled Zaza, Élise Steiner, Mariam Bilikhodze and Dr. Mahmood Azzo Hamdow
- A criminal tribunal and a wide-ranging reparation programme is necessary for the victims of sexual violence and torture in Iraq by Bojan Gavrilovic and Stephanie Schweininger
- Reforming Legal Responses to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region by Güley Bor
- Civil Society in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region Launch the ‘Coalition for Just Reparations’ by Güley Bor
- Supporting Transitional Justice in Fragile Environments: Lessons from Iraq Post-ISIS by Osama Gharizi
- The Failure of Top-Down Approaches to Transitional Justice: What Iraqis and Syrians Teach Us by Habib Nassar
- Promoting inclusive citizenship through audio-visual resources, the Yazidi case
- The Limits of Punishment: Transitional Justice and Violent Extremism, Iraq Case Study by Mara Redlich Revkin
- Acts of Annihilation by Sareta Ashraph
What Justice for the Yazidi Genocide?: Voices from Below by Payam Akhavan, Sareta Ashraph, Barzan Barzani, David Matyas