Justice for Victims: Ensuring Effective Enforcement Abroad of Court Decisions Concerning Reparations, Memorandum to the Hague Conference on Private International Law

Headings: 
Key Treaties and Texts
Corporate Author: 
Amnesty International
Title: 
Justice for Victims: Ensuring Effective Enforcement Abroad of Court Decisions Concerning Reparations, Memorandum to the Hague Conference on Private International Law
Document Type: 
Information from Non-Governmental Organizations
Reference: 
Memorandum to the Hague Conference on Private International Law, Special Commission Meeting, 7 to 18 June 1999
URL: 
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGIOR530021999
Annotation: 
While reparation awards may be made in cases of human rights violations, these decisions are frequently not enforceable and the victims are left unable to collect their award. This memorandum by Amnesty International (AI) outlines the fundamental principles that AI believes are essential to ensure victims of violations of human rights, international criminal law or international humanitarian law obtain reparations. It also identifies some of the concerns that Amnesty International has with the text of the draft Convention on International Jurisdiction and the Effects of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters. [This memo is not about women's rights in particular.]