A/HRC/28/59/Add.1 (e) Improve access to affordable housing for people who are dependent on the rental market, improve rental market regulations and strengthen the legal protection of tenants; (f) Address gender imbalances caused by the economic crisis identified by the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice;42 (g) Increase public spending on health care and education to pre-crisis levels, given the improved economic situation, and ensure that required health-care services, including dental care, are fully accessible by all; (h) Intensify its efforts to address the high dropout rate in upper secondary education, in particular among children with an immigrant background; (i) Strengthen financial literacy and education on social and economic rights in school curricula; (j) Improve the provision of public information, including in foreign languages, on how individuals can use existing human rights protection mechanisms at the national or international level, including information about Icelandic institutions and associations defending the rights of citizens in the social and economic sphere; (k) Further improve the institutional design and regulatory framework of oversight of the banking industry so as to manage potentially destabilizing capital flows and strengthen parliamentary oversight of them; (l) Implement the outstanding legal reforms identified by the Parliamentary Committee that was established to consider the recommendations of the Special Investigative Commission; enhance laws relating to the accountability of government officials, thereby strengthening judicial independence; and impose employment restrictions in the private sector for former senior government officials, in line with the recommendations of the Council of Europe; (m) Maintain the provision of adequate resources to the Office of the Special Prosecutor so as to ensure that it can execute its mandate in a timely and rule-of-lawbased manner, including conducting investigations into past, current and future criminal economic activities and tax evasion; (n) Ensure that the Debtors’ Ombudsman remains adequately equipped to continue to assist over-indebted households with debt mitigation, provide advice and improve financial literacy so as to prevent citizens from falling into a debt trap; (o) Establish, without further delay, a national human rights institution in compliance with the Paris Principles, with a broad mandate covering all human rights, including social, economic and cultural rights; (p) Ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in order to ensure that individuals are entitled to send complaints under those human rights instruments. The Icelandic response to the banking collapse showed that the Government takes its commitments to protect social and economic rights seriously; consequently, it seems appropriate that Iceland should ensure that its population has access to those international complaints mechanisms. 42 24 A/HRC/26/39/Add.1.

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