Prof Rachel Murray and Debra Long are pleased to announce the launch of a new Guide ‘Providing reparation for human rights cases: A practical guide for African States’. This Guide (PDF, 2,596kB) has been developed to provide practical advice to State officials on steps that can be taken to implement decisions on individual cases from the African human rights bodies: the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights; the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights; and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, as well as UN treaty bodies. It draws on the findings of a four-year independent research project the ‘Human Rights Law Implementation Project’ (HRLIP), funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

The Guide includes case studies from State practice around the world to demonstrate how different States have responded to decisions and provided different types of reparation. It is hoped that they will inspire States to design their own implementation strategies for their particular circumstances.