David Cantor's research on reparation for Colombian refugees - “Restitution, Compensation, Satisfaction: Transnational Reparations and Colombia’s Victims’ Law” - is published by the UNHCR
Earlier this month, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) published in its New Issues in Refugee Research series the results of Dr David James Cantor’s research project on reparation for Colombian refugees located in neighbouring countries.
Based on Dr Cantor’s field research in 2011 across ten regions of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela, “Restitution, Compensation, Satisfaction: Transnational Reparations and Colombia’s Victims’ Law”: is the first study to consider the challenges of reparation for victims of armed conflict who are still unable to return to their own country. These questions arise from Colombia’s adoption of a comprehensive new law in June 2011 that offers reparation to individuals who have suffered damages as a result of human rights violations during the ongoing armed conflict.
Dr Cantor, who is a Lecturer in International Human Rights Law at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Director of the newly established Refugee Law Initiative at the Human Rights Consortium, contributed to Colombian Congressional debates in 2010 and 2011 that led to the adoption of this law.
