ICC’S LARGEST EVER REPARATION ORDER PAVES THE WAY FOR REPARATIONS FOR VICTIMS OF ONGWEN’S CRIMES

ICC Judges have issued the Court’s largest reparations order to date, with €52,429,000 awarded to 49,772 victims. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) joins other human rights organisations in welcoming this significant milestone acknowledging the extent of the harms of Dominic Ongwen’s crimes and ICC victims’ Rome Statute rights to reparations. FIDH calls on ICC States Parties, and other donors to provide funds to the Trust Fund for Victims (TRV) to finance the reparations, and on judges and Registry to uphold victims’ rights to participate and to legal representation in the reparations implementation stage, including by allocating sufficient legal aid to their counsel. Paris, The Hague, 28 February 2024. With the delivery of the largest reparation order ever delivered by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Dominic Ongwen case today, thousands of victims of his crimes in northern Uganda get closer to obtaining reparation for the harm they have suffered. As human rights organisations who submitted an amicus in the case, we welcome the decision by the ICC, while also emphasising the urgency to implement this order, given that two decades have passed since the crimes took place. Today’s order considered that the most appropriate type of reparations...