Washington, May 13 (ANI): The United Nations will provide legal rights of compensation and rehabilitation to people seriously injured or maimed by terrorist attacks across the world, a UN report will recommend next month.
The United Nations is taking the move to rebalance international law in favour of those who have suffered from terrorist attacks, The Guardian reports.
The report is made by the UN's special rapporteur on counter terrorism and human rights Ben Emmerson, a leading British lawyer.
The UK Government as welcomed the report at a time when the international legal system is facing criticism for doing too much to protect the rights of alleged supporters of terrorism, such as the radical cleric Abu Qatada.
The Emmerson report will be presented to the United Nations human rights council in Geneva on 20 June and the General Assembly in New York on 28 June.
Emmerson will stress on providing life insurance policies, most of which do not at present cover people killed in terrorist attacks.
The proposal would also include providing travel insurance policies that cover medical and other care for those killed or injured through terrorism while on holiday.
The report comes after a four-year campaign by the family of Mumbai bomb victim Will Pike, 31, who was left disabled.
Few states outside western Europe have proper compensation systems, including the US, although Washington did set up a special scheme to compensate 9/11 victims.
If the Emmerson report is accepted it would oblige all UN states to adopt a uniform set of standards, establishing more firmly in international law the principle that terrorist acts amount to violations of the human rights of the victims, irrespective of the question of direct or indirect state responsibility. (ANI)
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