Victims of crimes, victims of abuse of power and victims of gross and systematic human rights violations have had little relevance to international law. However, since 1985, international human rights law has taken an interest in them and has created four instruments, which establish different notions of victim, as well as a catalogue of rights. Since then, victims have become increasingly prominent in processes involved in seeking justice, truth and reparation. Recently, victim’s testimonies are used as one of the indicators, although not the only one, for measuring compliance and protection of human rights rules in the United Nations system.

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联合国机构的报告将侵犯人权行为的证词作为主要来文

犯罪的受害者，滥用职权的受害者以及严重和系统的侵犯人权行为的受害者与国际法没有多大关系。但是，自1985年以来，国际人权法引起了人们的兴趣，并制定了四项文书，确立了不同的受害人概念以及一系列权利。从那时起，受害者在寻求正义，真相和赔偿的过程中变得越来越重要。最近，受害人的证词被用作衡量联合国系统遵守和保护人权规则的指标之一，尽管不是唯一的指标。