ABSTRACT
The right to reparation for human rights violations, particularly for torture, has always been an important concern in Professor Rodley’s academic and practical work. To give but a few examples, as the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (1993-2001), Professor Rodley tirelessly stressed the importance of reparations for torture victims;1 and just recently, he published a careful analysis of this right in the third edition of his seminal book, The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law.2 The present chapter takes this recurrent theme in Professor Rodley’s work one step forward by considering its implementation. Taking the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR or the Court) as an example, given its holistic approach to reparations, and focusing specifically on non-pecuniary damages, this chapter discusses some of the complexities the award of reparations for such harms entails in practice.
