Abstract:

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has gained a special place within the mechanisms of international protection of human rights with its creative and comprehensive jurisprudence on the reparation of the consequences of human rights violations. The Court has based the jurisdiction granted to it by the American Convention on Human Rights within the framework of the responsibility of states for internationally wrongful acts, and has enriched the means of reparation by taking into account the specific characteristics of human rights violations. Thus, by designing the reparation beyond compensation and the declaratory relief, it has taken effective steps to provide reparation to victims of human rights violations and to prevent future similar violations. In its case law on reparation, the Court made a significant contribution to human rights law by emphasizing together the reparation of individual grievances and the realization of structural and systemic changes to achieve the broader public interest embodied in the concept of human rights and by considering the repair within its social-economic and cultural dimensions.

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