| Introduction : repairing the past : compensation for victims of human rights violations | 1 |
| Case studies | |
| 1 | Economic reparations for grave human rights violations : the Argentinean experience | 21 |
| 2 | The reparations policy for human rights violations in Chile | 55 |
| 3 | The reparations program in Brazil | 102 |
| 4 | The reparations proposals of the truth commissions in El Salvador and Haiti : a history of noncompliance | 154 |
| 5 | Overview of the reparations program in South Africa | 176 |
| 6 | Reparations in Malawi | 215 |
| 7 | Report on redress : the Japanese American internment | 257 |
| 8 | Compensation for the victims of September 11 | 284 |
| 9 | The United Nations Compensation Commission | 321 |
| 10 | German reparations to the Jews after World War II : a turning point in the history of reparations | 390 |
| 11 | Making good again : German compensation for forced and slave laborers | 420 |
| Thematic studies | |
| 12 | Justice and reparations | 451 |
| 13 | Reparations, international law, and global justice : a new frontier | 478 |
| 14 | Justice in context : the relevance of inter-American human rights law and practice to repairing the past | 504 |
| 15 | Reparations and civil litigation : compensation for human rights violations in transitional democracies | 539 |
| 16 | Narrowing the micro and macro : a psychological perspective on reparations in societies in transition | 560 |
| 17 | Reparations and mental health : psychosocial interventions towards healing, human agency, and rethreading social realities | 589 |
| 18 | Reparation of sexual violence in democratic transitions : the search for gender justice | 623 |
| 19 | Financing reparations programs : reflections from international experience | 650 |
| 20 | Reparations and microfinance schemes | 676 |
| Primary documents and legislation | |
| Nunca Mas : the report of the Argentine National Commission on the disappeared, part VI : recommendations and conclusions, 'recommendations' [excerpt] | 701 |
| Law 23.466, pensions for relatives of disappeared persons (October 30, 1986) | 702 |
| National decree 1.228/87, regulations law 23.466 on pensions for minors whose parents have been disappeared (July 30, 1987) | 704 |
| National decree 70/91, decree of necessity and urgency on benefits for detainees under the control of the national executive branch during the state of siege (January 10, 1991) | 707 |
| Law 24.043, benefits granted to persons placed under the control of the national executive branch during the state of siege (November 27, 1991) | 712 |
| Decree 205/97, regulations of law 24.043 (March 17, 1997) | 715 |
| Law 24.321, forced disappearance of persons (May 11, 1994) | 716 |
| Law 24.411, absence due to forced disappearance (December 7, 1994) | 718 |
| National decree 403/95, decree regulating the law on absence due to forced disappearance (August 29, 1995) | 722 |
| Law 24.823, forced disappearance of persons (May 7, 1997) | 726 |
| Law 25.914, human rights (August 30, 2004) | 729 |
| Report of the Chilean national commission on truth and reconciliation, part IV, chapter 1 : proposals for reparation (presented to President Aylwin February 8, 1991) | 732 |
| Law 19.123, establishes the national corporation for reparation and reconciliation and grants other benefits to those persons as indicated (February 8, 1992) | 748 |
| Law 9, 140 of December 4, 1995 recognizes as deceased those persons who have disappeared because of participation, or accusation of participation, in political activities in the period from September 2, 1961 to August 25, 1979, and makes other provisions | 760 |
| From madness to hope : the 12-year war in El Salvador : report of the commission on the truth for El Salvador, chapter V : recommendations, 'steps towards national reconciliation' (released March 15, 1993) [excerpts] | 764 |
| Report of the National Truth and Justice Commission, chapter VIII : recommendations, 'measures of reparation' (January 22, 2001) | 768 |
| Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act 34 of 1995, (July 26, 1995) [excerpts] | 770 |
| Constitutional Court of South Africa, Azanian Peoples Organisation (AZAPO) and others v. President of the Republic of South Africa (July 25, 1996) [excerpts] | 778 |
| Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa report, volume 5, chapter 5 : reparation and rehabilitation policy | 791 |
| Regulation 1660, promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, 1995, Act 34/95 : regulations regarding reparation to victims (November 12, 2003) | 816 |
| Constitution of the Republic of Malawi, chapter 13, 'national compensation tribunal' | 821 |
| National compensation tribunal (procedure) rules, 1997 | 825 |
| Japanese American internment : Civil Liberties Act of 1988 [excerpts] | 835 |
| Amendment to the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 to increase the authorization for the trust fund under that act [excerpts] | 852 |
| September 11, 2001 : Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act (September 22, 2001) [excerpts] | 856 |
| Code of federal regulations, title 28, chapter 1, part 104, 'September 11th victim compensation fund of 2001' | 864 |
| Jewish victims of the holocaust : Luxembourg agreement and associated documents [excerpts] | 886 |
| Federal compensation law 1956 [excerpts] | 898 |
| Second law to amend the federal compensation law 1965 [excerpts] | 951 |
| Forced and slave labor : federal law on the creation of a foundation, 'remembrance, responsibility and future' (August 2, 2000) | 965 |
| Property claims commission, supplemental principles and rules of procedure [excerpts] | 981 |