ICC issued a decision on reparations for Lubanga’s victims
On August 7, 2012, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a decision according to which the ICC Trust Fund for Victims would secure reparations for the victims of Thomas Lubanga, aconvicted leader of the militia of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is the first decision of its kind since the establishment of the ICC in 2002. The Court has recommended a set of reparative measures and delegated their application to the Fund for Victims, which will perform this task in collaboration with victims’ associations.
Belgrade, August 2nd, 2012- HLC Deputy Director Sandra Orlović and Petar Žmak, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) Reparations Coordinator, attended a meeting today, August 2nd, 2012, with the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Nevena Petrušić, regarding HLC’s initiative for the amendment of the legal framework for the realizing of the rights of civilian victims of war in Serbia. HLC representatives informed the Commissioner about the existing legal framework, which prevents victims of human rights violations committed during 1990’s by members of the Serbian army and police, family members of the missing, and rape victims, from realizing their rights in the capacity of civilian victims of war. Furthermore, representatives of the HLC stated that they expected from the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality in Serbia to focus on the unjustly different treatment of certain categories of victims of serious violations of human rights in Serbia.