Reparations Database
This database brings together reparations case law and legislation from the case study countries, as well as international jurisprudence, peace agreements and recommendations on reparations in truth commission reports from over 100 countries and more than 500 sources.
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2010 Draft-Law No. II Framework of the National Reparations Programme [Unofficial translation]
By Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste National Parliament
1996 NPRC Decree No. 12 establishing the National Commission for Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Degree
By National Provisional Council of Sierra Leone
2010 Bill no. /II Establishing the Public Memory Institute [Unofficial translation]
By National Parliament of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
1957 Republic Act No. 1789 – An Act Prescribing The National Policy In The Procurement And Utilization Of Reparations And Development Loans From Japan, Creating A Reparations Commission To Implement The Policy, Providing Funds Therefor, And For Other Purposes [Unofficial translation]
By Government of the Philippines
2013 General Law on Victims [Unofficial translation]
By The General Congress of the United Mexican States
2013 General Law on Victims [Spanish]
By General Congress of the United Mexican States
2016 Resolution on Benefits for Reasons of Detention and Forced Exile [Spanish]
By The Government of Argentina: Ministry of Justice
2009 Law 26.564 Forced Disappearance Argentina [Spanish]
By Argentine Congress
1994 Law 24.411 Absence Due Forced Disappearance [Spanish]
By Argentine Congress
2004 Law 19880 that modifies Law 19123, Law of Reparations, expanding the benefits provided [Spanish]
By National Congress of Chile
1993 Law 19234 that establishes Provisional Benefits for Politically Exonerated Persons [Spanish]
By National Congress of Chile
2004 Law 19992 that establishes a Reparations’ Pension and Provides Other Benefits [Spanish]
By National Congress of Chile
2005 Peru Law Nº 28592 creates the Comprehensive Reparations Programme [Spanish]
By National Congress of Peru
