A/HRC/28/59/Add.1
Annex
[English only]
Report of the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign
debt and other related international financial obligations of
States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly
economic, social and cultural rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky,
on his mission to Iceland (8–15 December 2014)
Contents
Paragraphs
Page
I.
Introduction .............................................................................................................
1–3
4
II.
Framework for analysis: financial crises and human rights ....................................
4–19
4
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
A.
Iceland’s international human rights obligations ............................................
6–8
5
B.
Iceland’s human rights protection framework ................................................
9–17
6
C.
Iceland’s international human rights commitments ........................................
18–19
8
Iceland’s response to the banking crisis: adjustment with a more human face .......
20–47
8
A.
The banking collapse ......................................................................................
20–24
8
B.
Sheltering the welfare state .............................................................................
25–34
10
C.
Taxation and the distribution of losses ...........................................................
35
13
D.
Special Investigative Commission of the Parliament......................................
36–38
13
E.
Reform of banking supervision .......................................................................
39–41
14
F.
Office of the Special Prosecutor .....................................................................
42–43
15
G.
Participation of citizens and accountability ....................................................
44–47
15
Impact of the banking crisis on the enjoyment of human rights ..............................
48–66
16
A.
Right to work ..................................................................................................
48–50
16
B.
Right to social security, and combatting poverty and social exclusion...........
51–56
17
C.
Right to health ................................................................................................
57–59
19
D.
Right to education ...........................................................................................
60–62
19
E.
Right to adequate housing and individual debt relief......................................
63–66
20
Lessons learned .......................................................................................................
67–78
21
A.
Good practices ................................................................................................
67–70
21
B.
Can the Icelandic experiences be useful in other contexts? ............................
71–78
22
Conclusions and recommendations .........................................................................
79–83
23
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