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:
- Justice and accountability for the atrocities of daesh – Progress made and the way forward – The International Bar Association (IBA)
- 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 - Ten Years on from the Yazidi Genocide: Searching for Redress for the War against ISIS, Luke Moffett
- Return to Sinjar: The Yazidi Community’s Journey Home and the Challenges Ahead, Kawaar Mahmoud, Peace and Freedom Organization
- Strengthening Implementation of the Yazidi [Female] Survivors Law: Recommendations Based on International and Comparative Best Practices, Free Yezidi Foundation, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
- A decade of unmet demands: Reflecting on the Yazidi genocide, Alannah Travers on behalf of C4JR, Jiyan, SEED, and Yazda, The New Region, August 3, 2024.
- Frozen political will and a disempowered public administration threaten the future of Yazidis and minorities in Sinjar, Yazda, Wilson Center, and Zovighian Public Office, July 30, 2024.
- Syria: Yezidi survivors of Islamic State atrocities abandoned to indefinite detention in north-east Syria, Amnesty International, July 31, 2024.
- In the Shadow of the Caliphate: A Decade of Islamic State Gendered Violence, Devorah Margolin and Gina Vale, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, August 2024.
- After IS, justice for Yazidis? ‘The world has moved on’, Cathrin Schaer, Deutsche Welle, August 2, 2024.
- Navigating conflicting memories: Reconciliation initiatives to engage the Yezidi population in Iraq require an urgent overhaul, XCEPT Briefing Note
