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Does an armed group have an obligation to provide reparations to its victims ? : construing an obligation to provide reparations for violations of international humanitarian law

Paloma Blázquez Rodríguez

Non-state actors and international obligations : creation, evolution and enforcement

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, 2018

p. 406-428

English

If victims of state abuses generally experience a gap between entitlement and reality, this can be further observed when it is armed opposition groups (AOGs) committing the human rights and humanitarian law abuses. The disparity between the legal status of victims of state abuses, on the one hand, and victims of AOG's abuses, on the other hand, in the same conflict, is increasingly considered unsatisfactory from a justice-perspective. This chapter addresses the major gap in relation to the victims' right to redress, taking a victim-oriented approach and exploring ways in which AOGs can be held to account and be obliged to provide reparations to the victims of their acts.

• Non-state actors and international obligations : creation, evolution and enforcement / ed. by James Summers and Alex Gough