ABSTRACT
The UN Secretary-General's Guidance Note on Reparations for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence recognizes that men and boys also experience sexual violence in conflict. In the Nairobi Declaration, reparations are conceptualized as having a critical transformative function. As de Greiff argues, reparations represent for victims 'the most tangible manifestation of the efforts of the state to remedy the harms they have suffered'. At the international level, it has long been recognized that victims, broadly defined, have a right to a remedy. In the Basic Principles and Guidelines, 'remedy' is conceptualized as an amalgam of different types of justice. While Croatia and Kosovo are just beginning to recognize survivors of conflict-related rape and sexual violence, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) is considerably further ahead. In the BiH Federation, it is the Law on Principles of Social Protection, Protection of Civil Victims of War and Protection of Families with Children that constitutes the legal basis of civilian victim of war status.
