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The right to seek and obtain reparations is vested with the state whose citizens suffered the losses, but individuals are barred from pursuing a claim for compensation directly against the state that wronged them. The grant of reparations is thus a political question, and individuals who suffered harm may be left undercompensated or ...
Other cases of reparations, such as to the Jewish people who survived the Holocaust or the Native Americans in the United States, are very different in the way that it is much easier to identify the group who should receive them, and the reparations were paid more quickly than in the case of reparations for slavery.
Reparation (legal), the legal philosophy; Reparations (transitional justice), measures taken by the state to redress gross and systematic violations of human rights law or humanitarian law; Reparations for slavery, proposed compensation for the Atlantic slave trade, to assist the descendants of enslaved peoples
In a new report, California's reparations task force calculates how much Black people are owed for racism. It's at least hundreds of millions of dollars. Column: Reparations is morally right.
The United Nations human rights chief called for countries to take concrete steps on reparations for people of African descent at a U.N. meeting on Friday, adding his voice to calls for justice ...
In the 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, reparation include the following forms: restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition, whereby
Under consideration at this time is establishing and funding a commission-led study on the effects that offering reparations of some kind would have. RELATED: Roy Moore's claim America was great ...
Reparations for slavery applies the UN reparations framework to the human rights violations of U.S. chattel slavery and its legacies for victims of slavery and/or their descendants. There are concepts for reparations in legal philosophy and reparations in transitional justice. Reparations can take many forms, including practical and financial ...