Comprehensive Reparation: State Responsibility in the legal and jurisprudential context

Abstract

This paper argues the need to move towards a more robust and specific legislation for comprehensive reparation of the damage caused by State agents during the period from 1973 to 1990, in order to provide adequate protection to the victims of human rights violations. To this end, it proposes a broader definition of the concept of victim and expands the list of measures that seek to restore the dignity of individuals. In addition, it advocates the deployment of public policies of comprehensive reparation for victims, direct or indirect, through inter-institutional coordination that incorporates international and national law. Finally, it advises the exercise of memory and justice in order not to repeat the atrocities of the past.