The remedial component

Abstract

Abstract This chapter focuses on the remedial response to serious violations of human rights as the last component of the special regime—the remedial one. It analyses both the procedures to facilitate access to remedies and the remedies awarded to victims of such violations. On the one hand, it examines how the international community alone or in collaboration with the state concerned have been building ad hoc reparation programmes to address exclusively serious violations of human rights and not any human rights breach—often referred to as ‘mass claims procedures’. On the other hand, it follows the evolution of reparations before the regional human rights courts—primarily the European and the Inter-American Courts. It identifies specific procedures that take into account the gravity of violations before them, as well as specific remedies that are primarily awarded to victims of serious violations of human rights.