given the disparate and differentiated impact violence has on women and different groups of women there is a need for specific measures of redress to meet their specific needs and priorities according to the special rapporteur the focus of reparations should be on fairness towards the victims of human rights violations and on repairing the damage done not only on returning the women to the circumstances they were in before they suffered the violence since the violence women experience is a continuum of structural and systemic discrimination women face in peacetime during conflict and postconflict its structural and systemic causes need to be addressed by reparations aiming to transform these conditions complex reparations schemes such as those providing a variety of benefits can better address the needs of female beneficiaries and have transformative potential both in practical material terms and in terms of boosting their selfconfidence and esteem