12. 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

Victims' registries are tools traditionally used in transitional justice processes to identify the population that has suffered human rights violations and to guide reparation programmes. Based on the experience of devising an official registry in Colombia, this paper analyses the conditions that make it a valid instrument for documenting human rights violations and for ensuring the recognition of victims. I argue that official registries are useful tools if they adopt appropriate elements (institutional design, the definition of victim, the methodology for analysis) from the outset and if they develop effective implementation. The political, legal, or administrative decisions that are adopted to resolve the challenges of the process have an impact on the utility of the registry as a tool for the recognition of victims and for the later implementation of reparation programmes.

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A General Legislative Analysis of "Torture" as a Human Rights Violation in Zimbabwe

Chitimira

Mokone²

2017

PER

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Several challenges involving torture-related human rights violations have been reported in Zimbabwe from the late 1970s to date. Notably, these torture-related human rights violations were problematic during the liberation war era in Zimbabwe. Regrettably, such violations are allegedly still prevalent, especially prior to and/or during general political elections in Zimbabwe. Accordingly, this article investigates torture as a human rights violation in Zimbabwe, inter alia by focusing on the role of selected law enforcement agencies in the protection of human rights in Zimbabwe. The article also discusses the legal position on torture and the perpetration of torture against ordinary people prior to as well as after independence in Zimbabwe. This is done to investigate the adequacy of the legal framework in Zimbabwe with regard to the combatting of torture. In relation to this, selected regional and international legal frameworks against torture are briefly discussed in order to determine possible measures that could be utilised in Zimbabwe. The authors submit that although the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No 20) Act, 2013 (Zimbabwe Constitution, 2013 prohibits torture, more may still need to be done to enhance the combatting of torture in Zimbabwe. For instance, apart from the prohibition contained in the Zimbabwe Constitution, 2013, there is no legislation that expressly outlaws torture in Zimbabwe. Moreover, Zimbabwe has not ratified the United Nations (UN

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12. 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

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