THEMATIC REPORT 2017
REDRESS AND REPARATIONS
It is important to note that states
have a responsibility to collect data
to demonstrate that they are fully
implementing their obligations under
the UN Convention against Torture.
state-run rehabilitation services. To date there is also little indication that
they are allocating the sufficient budgetary resources needed to establish the
infrastructure to provide rehabilitation services of an acceptable quality. This
is illustrated by the numbers of victims that the IRCT member centres treat and
the lack of alternative rehabilitation services available to these victims through
the state.
It is important to note in relation to this report that states have a responsibility
to collect data to demonstrate that they are fully implementing their obligations
under the UN Convention against Torture (UNCAT). For example, states
are required to collect data on the number of complaints about torture or
ill-treatment they receive, the number of torture victims who have accessed
mechanisms and have obtained redress and reparation, including the amounts.
States are also expected to collect data on the number of torture victims who
have sought compensation, been awarded compensation, received rehabilitation
services and on the rehabilitation facilities available and budget allocated
to these services.44
The majority of states do not collect sufficient data to show the full extent
of torture and the availability and accessibility of redress and reparations
mechanisms to torture victims. This makes it even more vital that the IRCT’s
member centres collect data which enables them to provide valuable, evidencebased information on the extent of torture in their country and its effects on
the individual victims as well as the extent to which obligations to investigate,
prosecute and convict perpetrators and to provide reparations, including
rehabilitation, are being implemented by the state. In so doing, IRCT member
centres are able to call states to account in their own human rights work at
national, regional or global level.
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