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In the European Union document by Milquet (2019, 14), titled “Strengthening victims’ rights: from compensation to reparation. For a new EU Victims’ rights strategy 2020-2025”, the point of departure is a “human rights-based concept of victimisation inspired by different contributions of the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA)”. In this book, we underline a conceptualisation of victims in a non-essentialist, pathological or antagonistic perspective. Victims do not have the right to punish the offender, but they do have a right to access to justice. Whether justice should be defined in punitive terms or more restorative ones is something that communities should decide under criteria of ethics and evidence, this last one usually quite fragmentary and complex in these issues. In that sense, victims have rights and the state positive obligations towards them. Thus, the state is a duty-bearerssss1 towards victims as rights-holders, but those rights, in a true human rights perspective, should be thought of as indivisible and interdependent with other people’s rights, including offenders’, under a critical standpoint of social justice.