in social, economic and political structures and relationships in a
manner that deals effectively with the factors which allow for torture
and other ill-treatment. This transformation envisages processes
with long-term and sustainable perspectives that are responsive to
the multiple justice needs of victims and therefore restore human
dignity. It requires broad interpretation of State Parties’ obligations
to provide redress, including putting in place legal, administrative
and institutional frameworks to give effect to the right to redress.
9.
State Parties are required to ensure that victims of torture and other
ill-treatment are able in law and in practice to claim redress by
providing victims with access to effective remedies. This includes
the adoption of relevant legislation and the establishment of judicial,
quasi-judicial, administrative, traditional and other processes.
These processes should adhere to standards of due process and
comply with the measures and protections envisaged under Article
1 of the African Charter.
10. Reparation includes restitution, compensation, rehabilitation,
satisfaction - including the right to the truth, and guarantees of nonrepetition. The overarching goal of these forms of reparation is to
provide healing for victims of torture and other ill-treatment. Healing
entails making whole that which has been broken and wounded. It
seeks to restore the dignity, humanity and trust violated by torture
and other ill-treatment. It recognises and facilitates the journey of
coming to terms with the torture and other ill-treatment and dealing
with the consequences of trauma and other injuries. It has physical,
psychological, social, cultural and spiritual dimensions and
helps break the cycle of violence at individual, family, collective,
institutional and societal levels.
11. The responses required to give effect to the rights and needs of
individual victims and victimised communities to determine how
best to realise the right to redress must be tailored to the specific
contexts in Africa. These contexts include general policing, detention
and imprisonment, post and on-going conflict situations, legacies of
the colonial experience, and the fight against terrorism.
12. Responses are guided by the recognition that torture and other ill-
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