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Mr. Claudio Grossman

Mr. Claudio Grossman
Professor of Law
American University Washington College of Law
Member
International Law Commission

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Human Rights
Reparations
Reparations to Individuals for Violations of International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law
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Human Rights
Reparations
Reparations to Individuals for Violations of International Human Rights Law
and International Humanitarian Law
A. Legal Instruments

Convention for the Establishment of a Central American Court of Justice, Washington, 20 December 1907.

Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany, Versailles, 28 June 1919.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Paris, 10 December 1948.

Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, p. 31.

Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, p. 85.

Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, p. 135.

Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, p. 287.

European Convention on Human Rights, Rome, 4 November 1950, European Treaty Series, no. 005.

Treaty of Peace with Japan (with two declarations), San Francisco, 8 September 1951, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 136, p. 45.

Convention on the Settlement of Matters Arising Out of the War and the Occupation, Bonn, 26 May 1952.

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, New York, 21 December 1965, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, p. 195.

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, New York, 16 December 1966, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 999, p. 171.

American Convention on Human Rights “Pact of San José, San José, 22 November 1969, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1144, p. 144.

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), Geneva, 8 June 1977, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1125, p. 3.

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II), Geneva, 8 June 1977, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1125, p. 609.

African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Nairobi, 27 June 1981, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1520, p. 217.

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, New York, 10 December 1984, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1465, p. 85.

Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power (General Assembly resolution 40/34 of 29 November 1985).

Inter-American Convention on the Forced Disappearance of Persons, Belem Do Para, 9 June 1994.

Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belém do Pará), Belém do Pará, 9 June 1994.

Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, Oslo, 18 September 1997, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2056, p. 211.

Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 10 June 1998.

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Rome, 17 July 1998, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2187, p. 3, as amended.

International Law Commission, Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, 2001.

Convention on Cluster Munition, Dublin, 30 May 2008.

Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons, Washington, D.C., 15 June 2015.

American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 15 June 2016.

B. Jurisprudence

Permanent Court of International Justice, Factory at Chorzow (Germany v. Poland), Judgment of 26 July 1927, P.C.I.J., Series A, No. 9, p. 2.

Permanent Court of International Justice, Jurisdiction of the Courts of Danzig (Pecuniary Claims of Danzig Railway Officials Who Have Passed Into the Polish Service, Against the Polish Railways Administration), Advisory Opinion of 3 March 1928, P.C.I.J., Series B, No. 15, p. 4.

Permanent Court of International Justice, Factory at Chorzow (Germany v. Poland), Judgment of 26 July 1927, P.C.I.J., Series A, No 9, p. 1.

Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Villagran-Morales et al. v. Guatemala, Judgment of 19 November 1999.

International Court of Justice, Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy: Greece intervening), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 2012, p. 99.

International Court of Justice, Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 2005, p. 168.

C. Documents

Report on International Responsibility by Mr. F.V. Garcia-Amador, Special Rapporteur (A/CN.4/961, reproduced in Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1956, vol. II).

Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons, UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, June 2005.

General Assembly resolution 60/147 of 16 December 2005 (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)

Rule 150 (Reparation), ICRC’s study on customary international humanitarian law, 2005.

Cartagena Action Plan 2010 – 2014, Cartagena de Indias, 30 November-4 December 2009.

International Law Commission, Draft articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity, 2019.