Human Rights 'key' For Economic Policymaking: UN Expert
Faizan Hashmi Published January 22, 2019 | 02:07 PM
Human rights must be an integral component of policymaking to ensure economic reforms help advance societies, rather than hinder people's lives, an UN right expert has said
UNITED NATIONS, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Jan, 2019 ) :Human rights must be an integral component of policymaking to ensure economic reforms help advance societies, rather than hinder people's lives, an UN right expert has said.
Highlighting the vital role of human rights on policy making, the expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, published the Guiding Principles on Human Rights Impact Assessments of Economic Reforms to assist states, international financial institutions, creditors, civil society and others, to ensure that economic policies are embedded in human rights.
"The thrust of the Guiding Principles is that states cannot shy away from their human rights obligations in economic policymaking, even in times of economic crisis" Bohoslavsky said in a statement, issued Monday in Geneva on the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The UN human rights expert stressed that "any economic policy measures whether fiscal austerity, structural adjustment reforms, privatisation of public services, deregulation of financial and labour markets, or changes in taxation all have human rights consequences", adding that the impacts of economic measures have to be taken in consideration, specially on specific individuals and groups "such as women and persons with disabilities".
Bohoslavsky added that the new Guiding Principles make clear that international financial institutions, creditors and donors must not turn a blind eye to the human rights impact of their loans and grants.
He also called on international financial institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, to ensure that "their loan conditionalities, advice and proposals for economic reforms do not undermine the borrower state's human rights obligations".
The publication will be presented to the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council on 28 February.
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