Atrocity Victims and Justice: a theory and typology of atrocity victims’ needs, including empirical research in Uganda KU Leuven
Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law (GVIHR) and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law (SVIHL) cause severe and often prolonged harm to victims. According to international law, states hold an obligation to provide effective remedy – or reparation - to such victims ‘for (those) acts or omissions which can be attributed to the State and (which) constitute GVIHR or SVIHL.’ Unfortunately, a basic stock-take of ...