Background

The Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence will devote his report to the 78th session of the General Assembly, in October 2023, to thoroughly reviewing the question of financing of reparations owed to victims of serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law. In order to obtain a broad representation of views to inform the thematic report, he is seeking written contributions from all relevant actors through responses to a questionnaire.

Objectives

The report will review the existing experiences, challenges, good practices and lessons learned regarding measures adopted at national and international levels to fund and sustain reparations offered or provided to victims of serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law.

Key questions and types of inputs/comments sought

In order to obtain a broad representation of views to inform the thematic report, the Special Rapporteur is seeking written contributions from all relevant actors through responses to a questionnaire.

The questionnaire is available in English | Français | Español

How inputs will be used

Please note that the responses received will be published on the website of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.