CONTENTS
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Foreword ..................................................................................................................... v
Introduction ................................................................................................................. 1
I.
REPARATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW ............................................... 5
II. THE CONTEXT OF REPARATIONS ........................................................... 9
A. Background and context ........................................................................................ 9
B. Responsibility for the design of a reparations programme ..................................... 11
III. THE CHALLENGES FACED BY REPARATIONS PROGRAMMES ............ 15
A. Achieving “completeness” ................................................................................... 15
B. Which violations should be subject to reparations? ............................................... 18
C. What kinds of benefits should reparations programmes distribute? ...................... 22
D. Defining the goals of reparations, and how this affects the level and the modalities
of compensation .................................................................................................. 27
E. Financing reparations ........................................................................................... 32
F. Interpreting reparations benefits. Linking reparations and other justice measures .. 33
G. Linking reparations programmes to civil litigation ................................................. 34
H. Making a reparations programme gender-sensitive ............................................... 36
IV. THE ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ............................. 39
Final remarks ........................................................................................................... 41
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