Book contents
- Fighting Grand Corruption
- Fighting Grand Corruption
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Setting the Stage: International and Transnational Law and Policies
- Part II Putting Victims at the Center of Anti-Corruption Work
- 5 Fraud on the River
- 6 Giving It Back
- 7 Reparations for Victims of Grand Corruption
- Part III A Corruption Lens on Human Rights-Related Issues
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
5 - Fraud on the River
Victim Access to Corruption Proceedings*
from Part II - Putting Victims at the Center of Anti-Corruption Work
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 April 2025
- Fighting Grand Corruption
- Fighting Grand Corruption
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Setting the Stage: International and Transnational Law and Policies
- Part II Putting Victims at the Center of Anti-Corruption Work
- 5 Fraud on the River
- 6 Giving It Back
- 7 Reparations for Victims of Grand Corruption
- Part III A Corruption Lens on Human Rights-Related Issues
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
Summary
This chapter considers access to courts for victims of grand corruption, especially in Latin America. It explains the origins and meaning of victim compensation in the UNCAC, how “victim” is defined in human rights law, and uses the Honduran Gualcarque River case to introduce how courts are beginning to apply concepts from human rights law to cases involving victims of grand corruption. It divides these cases into “direct harm” suffered by individual or group victims, and cases involving broad or diffuse harm where victims as a class are represented by civil society organizations. It looks briefly at which civil society organizations should be able to represent victims in proceedings.
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- Fighting Grand CorruptionTransnational and Human Rights Approaches in Latin America and Beyond, pp. 77 - 103Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025