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27 Aug 2017

Submission to UN - 2017 consultation - human rights impact assessments for economic reform policies

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The Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights received nearly 50 stakeholder submissions in connection with the development of guiding principles for human rights impact assessments for economic reform policies. Information submitted will inform a public hearing and expert meeting. The forthcoming report of the Independent Expert will be published & presented to the Human Rights Council in March 2018. 

Official UN webpage showing all submissions

Official overview of consultation 

Compilation of excerpts from submissions, including: 

- Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
- Independent Expert/Special Rapporteur on the question of human rights and extreme poverty
- Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions and the Center for Economic and Social Rights
- European Network on Debt and Development (EURODAD)
- International Trade Union Confederation
- Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom
- Stratos Georgoulas, Professor of Social Security Law, University of the Aegean
- Noel Villaroman PhD

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