Legal Instruments

• International Decisions, Declarations, Principles and Conventions on the right to reparation for violations of international humanitarian law and on its implementation
• 2012 | Decision establishing the principles and procedures to be applied to reparations.
• 2010 | Declaration of International Law Principles on Reparation for Victims of Armed Conflict (Substantive Issues).
• 2007 | Nairobi Declaration on Women’s and Girls’ Right to a Remedy and Reparation
• 2007 | Principles And Guidelines On Children Associated With Armed Forces Or Armed Groups (The ‘Paris Principles’)
• 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.
• 2005 | Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons, ECOSOC Commission on Human Rights, Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights.
• 1997 | Cape Town Principles and Best Practices.
• 1985 | Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power.
• 1949 | The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols
• 1907 | The Hague Convention IV respecting the Laws and Customs of War and its annex: Regulations concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land. The Hague, 18 October 1907.

• Other important instruments providing for the right to reparation
• 1969 | The American Convention on Human Rights "pact of San Hose, Costa rica"
• 1966 | The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• 1948 | The Universal Declaration of Human Rights