Geoffrey Goodell, University College London (g.goodell@ucl.ac.uk)
We propose a novel and purpose-built payment mechanism for use by Ukrainian nationals to rebuild homes and other privately-held facilities that had been lost or damaged in the Russia-Ukraine war. Claimants shall receive electronic tokens that can be used to pay registered contractors to carry out construction tasks. The system shall be based upon the scalable architecture for retail payments described in our earlier work [1].
The system shall be designed to achieve three main objectives. First, tokens issued to Ukrainian nationals would be held directly by the individual claimants, not via intermediaries, to avoid the risk of failure or subversion of asset custodians.
Law of Ukraine - On compensation for Damage and Destruction of Certain Categories of Realty Units as a Result of Military Actions, Terrorist Acts, Sabotage Caused by the Military Aggression of the Russian Federation.
With International Best Practice for mass claims and transitional justice for housing, land and property compensation.
Taking into account:
The UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The UN International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights.
The European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms The UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.
The Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law.
The Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons (the Pinheiro Principles) The IASC Framework on Durable Solutions The Constitution of Ukraine The Ukrainian Land Code.
“The parties to the land dispute have the right to read the materials on this dispute, make extracts from them, participate in the land dispute, submit documents and other evidence…give oral and written explanations…” Ukraine Land Code 2002
3.1 The purpose of this Act is to enable the Government of Canada to take economic measures against certain persons in circumstances where an international organization of states or association of states of which Canada is a member calls on its members to do so, a grave
breach of international peace and security has occurred, gross and systematic human rights violations have been committed in a foreign state or acts of significant corruption involving a national of a foreign state have been committed.
