15 the Street Children, the reparations - of the consequences of the measure or situation in violation of the protected human rights (in the terms of Article 63(1) of the American Convention), - instead of truly repairing, rather alleviate the human suffering of the surviving relatives, seeking to rehabilitate them for life, - and thereby they become absolutely necessary. 43. This is, in my understanding, the true meaning, with the inevitable limitations of its real extent, of the juridical concept of reparations, in the framework of the International Law of Human Rights. The evil committed, as I have already pointed out, does not disappear: it is only fought against, and mitigated. The reparations granted render the life of the surviving relatives perhaps bearable, by the fact that, in the cas d'espèce, the silence and the indifference and the oblivion have not succeeded to cover the atrocities, and that the evil perpetrated has not prevailed over the perennial search for justice (proper of the spirit). In other words, the reparations granted mean that, in the concrete case, the human conscience has prevailed over the impulse of destruction. In this sense, the reparations, although not full, are endowed with an unquestionable importance in the work of safeguard of the rights inherent to the human being. Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade Judge Manuel E. Ventura-Robles Secretary