Citation

Dalton P. Torture 2004; 14(1): 53-55.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims)

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Abstract

The rights to reparation and to rehabilitation for survivors of torture are closely and intrinsically linked to each other. Both have their legal basis in article 14 of the UN Convention against Torture. Rehabilitation, in its broadest sense, could and does include many initiatives that would also be involved in a summary of activities associated with reparation. Similarly, the concept of reparation, as defined by Professor Van Boven in the leading UN study on the subject, "Draft Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law" (1997), includes rehabilitation as one of four main types of reparation.


It is important to acknowledge from the outset that torture survivors' perceptions of reparation -- what they would like to receive, in what form and to what end(s) -- vary widely. This presents particular difficulties in undertaking this type of research, and to the credit of Sarah Cullinan, the author of Torture Survivors' Perceptions of Reparation -- a Preliminary Survey, published by REDRESS, 2001, does not attempt to disguise this fact.

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