Non-pecuniary damages 33. The Applicant is also claiming moral damages occasioned by stress and subsequent harm worsened by various instances of police searches on him, and loss of the opportunity to participate effectively in the affairs of his country. Hundred and This claim Thirty One amounts Million, to 831, Three 322, 637.00 TZS, and Twenty Hundred (Eight Two Thousand, Six Hundred and Thirty Seven Tanzania Shillings). 34. The term ‘moral’ damages the suffering and in international law includes damages for afflictions caused distress of the family members conditions of the victim, and to the direct victim, non-material if alive, and the family. the emotional changes in the living Moral damages are not damages occasioning economic loss 35. In its jurisprudence, the Commission has recommended compensation for torture and trauma suffered.® The Inter-American Court has developed the concept of non-pecuniary damage and has established that it “may include both the suffering and distress caused to the direct victims and their next of kin, and the impairment of values that are highly significant to them, as well as changes of a non-pecuniary nature in the living conditions of the victims or their family.”° 36. The damages European (or moral Court of Human damages) Rights will award on the basis of equitable non-pecuniary consideration. 5 See Note 3 above. - °1ACHR Case of Villagran Morales et al. v Guatemala— Case of de los “Street a Children”, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of 26 May 2001. Series C No 77, pS paragraph 84. A V @ L-