Next ArticleThe Holy See supports the report of the Independent Expert and agrees with the assertion that a human rights impact assessment might help “policymakers identify potential inconsistencies between pre-existing human rights obligations and economic reform policies, irrespective of whether they are pursued exclusively, based on their own merits, or in response to lending conditionalities imposed by international financial institutions.”
This according to Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, at the 37th Session of the Human Rights Council on Report of the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of human rights on February 28, 2018
Following is the archbishop”s statement:
Madam President,
1 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. Doc. A/HRC/37/54 para 44.
2 Idem.
3 Pope Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio, n.14
4 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. Doc. A/HRC/37/54 para 78 (d).
5 Pope Francis, Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 25 September 2015.
6 Pope John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 35: AAS 83 (1991), 838; cf. also the document At the Service of the Human Community: An Ethical Approach to the International Debt Question, published by the Pontifical Commission “Iustitia et Pax”, 1986. II Edition 2011. 3
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