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against women and girls.
However, as pointed out by the previous Special Rapporteur, when it comes to the
implementation of the due diligence obligation to reparation, “very little information is
available regarding State obligations to provide adequate reparations for acts of violence
against women … this aspect of due diligence remains grossly underdeveloped”.1
Section II.A of this report looks at conceptual challenges that prevail when placing
the question of gender-sensitive reparations on the national and international agendas.
Section II.B analyses procedural and substantive considerations emerging in reparations
initiatives responding to violence in conflict, post-conflict and authoritarian settings.
Section II.C examines reparations to women and girls in contexts of “peace” or
consolidated democracies, by looking first at discriminatory practices against certain
groups of women, and second by highlighting recent landmark cases in the Inter-American
Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights.
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The Due Diligence Standard as a Tool for the Elimination of Violence against Women: report of the
Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Yakin Ertürk
(E/CN.4/2006/61).
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