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(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.
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