ABSTRACT
The international level of human rights and the constitutive bodies, courts, and tribunals which exercise a jurisdiction under international law have proven to be a significant source of inspiration for the development of victim rights into the twenty-first century. While rights frameworks continue to develop on the international and regional level, the ratification of these frameworks on the local, domestic level of individual jurisdictions establishes the argument of this book that international and regional human rights discourses are developed in the particular context of local jurisdictional concerns (see Beigbeder, 2011).
