Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-5cf477f64f-h6p2m Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-04-07T16:26:09.208Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

7 - Reparations for Victims of Grand Corruption

Applying a Human Rights Framework

from Part II - Putting Victims at the Center of Anti-Corruption Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 April 2025

Naomi Roht-Arriaza
Naomi Roht-Arriaza
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
Get access

Summary

Reparations for grand corruption: applies a human rights framework based on the UN Basic Principles on Remedy and Reparations to thinking about reparations for grand corruption on a national level. Under restitution, covers social reuse of confiscated property, and land restitution. Compensation is broken down into categories of damages arising from different corrupt acts, with a focus on loss of opportunity damages. The chapter also considers satisfaction, measures of non-repetition, diffuse harms and issues of causation.

Keywords

UN Basic Principles on Remedy and Reparationrestitutionlandcompensationlost opportunitydamagesmoral damagessatisfactionnon-repetitioncausationDPAsdiffuse interestssocial harmcollective harmsocial reusereparationcalculation of damageproximate cause
Type
Chapter
Information
Fighting Grand Corruption
Transnational and Human Rights Approaches in Latin America and Beyond
 , pp. 128 - 158
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×