Compensation claims are still outstanding, including one key class action in Australia, which saw thalidomide victims win the right to have their case for compensation heard there.
It also eliminates a longstanding "duty to retreat" in the face of imminent harm, asserting that would-be crime victims have the right to "stand their ground" and "meet force with force" when attacked as long as they are in a place they have a right to be, are not engaged in unlawful activity and believe that their life and safety was in danger.
Victims would have the right to consideration for a trial free from unreasonable delay and to restitution from a convicted attacker.
The legislation, if passed, will give victims and witnesses a right to certain information about their case, such as the time and place of the trial.
But if that were done, should victims then be denied the right to sue?
The World Conference on Human Rights reaffirms the right of the victims to be assisted by humanitarian organizations, as set forth in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and other relevant instruments of international humanitarian law, and calls for the safe and timely access for such assistance.
In my opinion, the victims who survived the odds did the right thing, whatever it was.
The prime minister said victims and their families had a "right to justice".
It's a bunch of people making the same claim, so you still have a good case, and it suggests prosecutors were probably right to wait for more victims to come forward.
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Rather than worrying about what radioactivity will come to the U.S., "it's more important that we help the victims from the tsunami and the earthquake right now, " said Peter Hosemann of the nuclear engineering department at the University of California, Berkeley.
And in times of crisis -- from the Bali bombings to East Timor to relief after a tsunami -- Darwin has been a hub, moving out aid, caring for victims, making sure that we do right by the people of this region.
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Two women from Pakistan who said they were victims of threat and abuse have won the right to seek asylum in Britain.
Almost 50 alleged victims of media malpractice have been granted the right to be "core participants" in the judicial inquiry into phone hacking.
But I began to realise it would be the right thing to do for the victims, for them to be able to understand the truth.
Under the Victims and Witnesses Bill, victims and witnesses would also be given a legal right to know the time and place of a trial.
"Right now, what they (flood victims) are in need of is transitional housing, " he said, adding that they would have to move out of school buildings and into tent cities by 3 January when classes start.
He said later that he didn't think it was right for the families to wait for the victims to be formally identified.
The right to privacy belongs to all citizens: the victims of crime, even if they are in public life, cannot be excluded from that.
Today is about the millions of women -- the victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault -- who are out there right now looking for a lifeline, looking for support.
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Wal-Mart argued, and the dissenters agreed, that by certifying a class of hundreds of thousands of employees the majority had stripped Wal-Mart of its right to hold individual hearings on whether women had been the victims of discrimination.
"These archives are fundamental to the processes of re-democratization in the region, particularly in a context in which the Southern Cone countries have established mechanisms such as Truth Commissions or Commissions for Peace, in order to guarantee the right to memory, truth and justice, especially for the victims of dictatorships and their families, " says Jorge Grandi, Director of the UNESCO Montevideo Office.
Survivors and victims' relatives view the report's findings as a step in the right direction, but some have dismissed it as "too little too late".
He said: "I am seeking assurances there are enough officers with the right kind of skills and aptitude to interview all of the alleged victims".
"Right now he's presumed to be innocent, these are alleged victims, " Amendola told Ganim.
"We know the situation in Japan is terrible right now, so we hope that our activities can help the Japanese victims, " said Chinese organizer Jing Yao, a junior aspiring to be Mandarin language teacher.
But the families of Holocaust victims do not see it as such: those who claim from the fund forfeit their right to sue the company in future.
Mr MacAskill, who himself used to be a solicitor, said it was only right that some people who are accused in criminal cases contributed financially when some victims also have to pay for things like protective orders.
Most victims of identity theft aren't sure how their account numbers were stolen, but investigators believe many are stolen right before their eyes by crooked employees at legitimate businesses.
Left and right rarely meet in combat, preferring to fight their war by proxy: only 5% of their victims, it is reckoned, actually die with a gun in their hands.
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