The role and responsibilities of non-state actors in transitional justice

This report was prepared for the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence (transitional justice). It was presented by the Rapporteur Fabián Salviol to the UN Human Rights Committee in September 2022.The report examines the normative and conceptual framework underpinning the participation of non-State actors (notably non-State armed groups, but also corporations) in transitional justice processes aimed at redressing the serious human rights violations and abuses in which they were directly or indirectly involved. It further reviews good practices, lessons learned and emerging opportunities regarding their engagement, or lack thereof, in the implementation of measures in the fields of truth, justice, reparation, memorialization and guarantees of non-recurrence to address those violations. It concludes with a series of practical recommendations as to how non-state actors can take responsibility for the involvement or complicity in past human rights violations.