promotion of international human rights standards in public service, law enforcement, the media, industry, and psychological and social services. Moreover, it is not only in doctrine, but also in practice, that a right to reparation is becoming firmly established. The International Court of Justice, for instance, continues to issue decisions on reparations. In the Case Concerning Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo, the Court illustrates the continued relevance of inter-State reparations by finding that Uganda has an obligation to provide reparations to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for, among other things, the invasion and occupation of Ituri. At the same time it finds that the Democratic Republic of the Congo has an obligation to pay reparations to Uganda for, among other things, mistreating Ugandan diplomats at the Ugandan Embassy in Kinshasa as well as at Ndjili International Airport.13 In its advisory opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Court finds that Israel has the obligation to make reparation for the damage caused to “all natural or legal persons having suffered any form of material damage as a result of the wall’s construction.”14 Finally, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court not only reaffirms the right of victims to reparations in cases tried by the Court (art. 75), it also establishes a trust fund for victims (art. 79). The contours of this reparations regime remain to be defined and generate complex challenges. However, the fact that this right is now an integral part of international criminal law not only supports existing practice but promises to stimulate further developments in the field of reparations. 13 14 8 The Court leaves it to the two parties to settle the specific forms reparations will take, but will do so itself if the parties fail to reach an agreement. See Case Concerning Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda), Judgment of 19 December 2005, I.C.J. Reports 2005. See Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, advisory opinion of 9 July 2004, I.C.J. Reports 2004, p. 136. Subsequently, the United Nations General Assembly, in its resolution ES-10/15 of 20 July 2004, requested the Secretary-General to establish a register of damage caused to all natural or legal persons concerned in connection with paragraphs 152 and 153 of the advisory opinion. In October 2006, the Secretary-General proposed an institutional framework for the establishment of the Register of Damage (see A/ES-10/361).

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