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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''reparacion'', from Anglo-French, from Late Latin reparation-, ''reparatio'', from Latin ''reparare''
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th century]
==Definition==
*1 a : a repairing or keeping in repair
:b reparations plural : repairs
*2 a : the [[act]] of making amends, offering [[expiation]], or giving [[satisfaction]] for a wrong or [[injury]]
:b : something done or given as amends or satisfaction
3 : the payment of damages : indemnification; specifically : compensation in money or materials payable by a [[defeated]] [[nation]] for damages to or expenditures sustained by another nation as a result of hostilities with the defeated nation —usually used in plural
==Description==
'''Reparations''' are broadly [[understood]] as compensation given for an [[abuse]] or injury. The colloquial [[meaning]] of reparations has changed substantively over the last century. In the early 1900s, reparations were interstate exchanges (see [[war]] reparations): punitive [[mechanisms]] determined by treaty and paid by the [[surrendering]] side of [[conflict]], such as the [[World War I]] reparations paid by Germany and its allies. Now, reparations are understood as not just war damages but compensation and other measures provided to [[victims]] of severe [[human rights]] violations by the parties [[responsible]]. The right of the victim of an [[injury]] to receive reparations and the [[duty]] of the part responsible to provide them has been secured by the United Nations.
In transitional [[justice]], reparations are measures taken by the state to redress gross and systematic [[violations]] of human rights law or humanitarian [[law]] through the [[administration]] of some form of compensation or restitution to the victims. Of all the mechanisms of transitional justice, reparations are [[unique]] because they directly address the situation of the victims. Reparations, if well [[designed]], acknowledge victims' suffering, offer measures of redress, as well as some form of compensation for the violations suffered. Reparations can be [[symbolic]] as well as [[material]]. They can be in the form of public acknowledgement of or [[apology]] for past violations, indicating state and social [[commitment]] to respond to former [[abuses]].
Proponents of reparations assert that in order to be [[effective]], reparations must be employed alongside other transitional justice measures such as prosecutions, [[truth]]-seeking, and institutional [[reform]]. Such mechanisms ensure that compensatory measures are not empty [[promises]], temporary stopgap measures, or attempts to buy the [[silence]] of [[victims]].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_(transitional_justice)]
[[Category: Law]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''reparacion'', from Anglo-French, from Late Latin reparation-, ''reparatio'', from Latin ''reparare''
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th century]
==Definition==
*1 a : a repairing or keeping in repair
:b reparations plural : repairs
*2 a : the [[act]] of making amends, offering [[expiation]], or giving [[satisfaction]] for a wrong or [[injury]]
:b : something done or given as amends or satisfaction
3 : the payment of damages : indemnification; specifically : compensation in money or materials payable by a [[defeated]] [[nation]] for damages to or expenditures sustained by another nation as a result of hostilities with the defeated nation —usually used in plural
==Description==
'''Reparations''' are broadly [[understood]] as compensation given for an [[abuse]] or injury. The colloquial [[meaning]] of reparations has changed substantively over the last century. In the early 1900s, reparations were interstate exchanges (see [[war]] reparations): punitive [[mechanisms]] determined by treaty and paid by the [[surrendering]] side of [[conflict]], such as the [[World War I]] reparations paid by Germany and its allies. Now, reparations are understood as not just war damages but compensation and other measures provided to [[victims]] of severe [[human rights]] violations by the parties [[responsible]]. The right of the victim of an [[injury]] to receive reparations and the [[duty]] of the part responsible to provide them has been secured by the United Nations.
In transitional [[justice]], reparations are measures taken by the state to redress gross and systematic [[violations]] of human rights law or humanitarian [[law]] through the [[administration]] of some form of compensation or restitution to the victims. Of all the mechanisms of transitional justice, reparations are [[unique]] because they directly address the situation of the victims. Reparations, if well [[designed]], acknowledge victims' suffering, offer measures of redress, as well as some form of compensation for the violations suffered. Reparations can be [[symbolic]] as well as [[material]]. They can be in the form of public acknowledgement of or [[apology]] for past violations, indicating state and social [[commitment]] to respond to former [[abuses]].
Proponents of reparations assert that in order to be [[effective]], reparations must be employed alongside other transitional justice measures such as prosecutions, [[truth]]-seeking, and institutional [[reform]]. Such mechanisms ensure that compensatory measures are not empty [[promises]], temporary stopgap measures, or attempts to buy the [[silence]] of [[victims]].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_(transitional_justice)]
[[Category: Law]]