Know Your Rights
Unlike defendant’s rights, which nearly everyone in the country can easily recite, very few people know what rights victims have. We are committed to changing this! On this page you will find Quicktools - short videos that provide basic information about victims’ rights and how to protect those rights. As Boutros Boutros-Ghali stated “An essential element in protecting human rights [is] a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.” Protecting victims’ rights starts here!
Hot Off The Presses
Watch our most recent Quicktools:
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- Trafficking and Victims’ Rights
- Victims Can File Papers
- Victims Can Have Attorneys
- Victims’ Rights and Defendants’ Rights Co-Existing
- Victims’ Rights Post-Sentencing
- What is Polyvictimization?
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