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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
Reparations are broadly understood as compensation given for an abuse or injury. [1] The colloquial meaning of reparations has changed substantively over the last century. In the early 1900s, reparations were interstate exchanges (see war reparations) that were punitive mechanisms determined by treaty and paid by the surrendering side of a conflict, such as the World War I reparations paid by ...
Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1350010604. Brophy, Alfred L. Reparations: Pro & Con. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Brooks, Roy L. Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
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 ...
The principle of reparation dates back to the lex talionis of Hebrew Scripture. Anglo-Saxon courts in England before the Norman conquest also contained this principle. Under the English legal system judges must consider making a compensation order as part of the sentence for a crime.
Bradford's reparations legislation would set up the Freedmen Affairs Agency, which, among other things, would determine the validity of claims brought by families that believe their property was ...
Wiedergutmachung (German pronunciation: [viːdɐˈɡuːtˌmaxʊŋ] ⓘ; German: "compensation", "restitution") refers to the reparations that the German government agreed to pay in 1953 to the direct survivors of the Holocaust, and to those who were made to work at forced labour camps or who otherwise became victims of the Nazis.
The county will also be reviewing a state task force report on reparations to develop language for a board resolution that "acknowledges and apologizes to African Americans and their descendants ...