The Peruvian government has cut this year’s budget for the Reparations Council (Consejo de Reparaciones), a national body set up as part of an Integral Reparations Plan (Plan Integral de Reparaciones – PIR), as recommended by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

This means that the Council has had to suspend its work on compiling a Victims’ Registry for victims and victims’ families (Registro Único de Víctimas) from the period of internal armed conflict. The idea is that these officially registered individuals and collectives would then be awarded some kind of financial recompense to help them access justice as part of the reconciliation process.

Despite certain deficiencies, the compilation of Victims’ Registries and reparations is the one area in the TRC process that has advanced, albeit slowly. Peruvian and international Human Rights organisations are calling on the authorities to recognise their obligations to the victims of the conflict.