Using a range of case studies, Christine Evans analyses efforts to implement the right to reparation in international law for victims of armed conflict and explores the role of the UN in promoting State responsibility for reparations through transitional justice measures.

1. Introduction, objectives and method; Part I. Responsibility and Legal Standards: 2. State responsibility, the international legal order and development of legal norms for victims; 3. Human rights jurisprudence on reparations, international and regional; 4. Victims' rights in international criminal law; 5. Legal state of play: convergence of international law and reparation as an individual legal right with customary recognition; Part II. Transferring Standards into Reality: 6. The role of the UN, promotion of victims' rights and reparations in practice; 7. Case study: reparations in Guatemala; 8. Case study: reparations in Sierra Leone; 9. Case study: reparations in East Timor; 10. Case study: reparations in Colombia; 11. Reparations in practice: comparative analysis of practice, lessons learnt and future challenges; 12. The right to reparation and implementation of the legal norm: emerging convergence of law and practice?

Christine Evans is a staff member of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.