Victims' Rights Working GroupPromoting the rights and interests of victims
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Reparations & Victims' Trust Fund
Relevant Documents

Article 75 of the Statute states that the Court will establish principles for reparations to victims, including restitution, compensation and rehabilitation. Rules 94 to 99 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence set out the procedure for reparations to victims. Reparations may be granted by the Court upon request of victims or based on a motion of the Court itself. The Court may invite to the reparations hearings not only the victims and the convicted persons (with their respective legal representatives), but also other interested persons or interested States whose properties could be affected by the rulings on reparations.

Reparations can be individual or collective or both. Indeed, while the Court procedures currently require that reparations must be applied for individually, they can be awarded collectively in favour of a project, public service, monument or other initiative which may provide reparation to a group of victims.

A Trust Fund has been established in September 2002 for the benefit of victims and their families, and its sources include money and other property collected through fines and forfeiture imposed by the Court as well as voluntary contributions from external sources.

Administered by a Secretariat which is located at the premises of the Court in The Hague, it is supervised by a Board of Directors. The Trust Fund has been open to receiving donations since 2005 and has so far received approximately €2.37 million.

Northern Ugandans
IDPs have been resettled to government-controlled camps, sometimes forcibly, in the face
of the ongoing civil conflict.
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