topic 4 Flashcards
DEFINITION COMPLETE OF REPARATIONS?
–>State-sponsored initiatives that seek to replace and compensate past damages with different measures. It can take administrative or judicial forms.
–>It is the responsability of states that have gone trhough past human rights violations and authoritarian regimes to provide reparations and compensations to those who have been victims.
It is a way of implementing justice.
HOW CAN REPARATIONS BE IMPLEMENTED?
1º through administrative programs
2º enforced as an outcome of litigation (implemnetadas como resultado de una accion legal)
WHICH ARE THE 2 MAIN TYPE REPARATIONS?
1º MATERIAL
2º SYMBOLIC
WHAT ARE MATERIAL REPARATIONS?
financial and services reparations.
Cash transfers, pensions, tax credits // health or welfare services.
WHAT ARE SYMBOLIC REPARATIONS?
MAINLY MEMORIALIZATION.
Memorials or centers of documentation must be done in order to preserve the memory of those victims and also the past of the country, so that it never happens again.
TYPES OF SYMBOLIC REPARATIONS
1º SITIOS CONSTRUIDOS (center of documentations-museums)
2º FOUND SITES (fosas-graves)
3º ACTIVITIES.