SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2012, para. 30
Párrafo- Original document
- Document type
- Informe del RSSG
- Paragraph text
[Reparations for children and the restoration of children’s rights]: Previous experience with reparations for children, either administrative or court-ordered, has been limited. Past and present initiatives provide useful lessons learned and a sense of the challenges ahead. The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, for example, was the first ad hoc and hybrid court mandated to order reparations to victims, albeit only of a collective and symbolic nature. The Special Court for Sierra Leone had no mandate to award reparations. Instead, the Government established an administrative reparations programme on the basis of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Resource limitations, however, have put a significant strain on the implementation of this reparations process. In Colombia, in the framework of the Justice and Peace Act, the Supreme Court ordered reparations to child victims of forced recruitment in the case against Freddy Rendón Herrera, alias “El Alemán”, who was accused of unlawful recruitment. The Court considered the needs and experience of each victim, in particular girls, to be different, and decided to focus on individual rehabilitation measures rather than collective material reparations.
- Document legal status
- Derecho dispositivo no negociado
- Document body
- SRSG: Representante especial del Secretario General para la cuestión de los niños y los conflictos armados
- Document means of adoption
- N/A
- Temas
- Gobernanza y imperio de la ley
- Humanitario
- Violencia
- Personas afectadas
- Niñas
- NNA
- Document year
- 2012
- Tipo de párrafo
- Otro
- Paragraph number
- 30