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Notes 1 Les renseignements repris dans le présent document de travail sont tirés de rapports publiés notamment sur des sites Internet. 2 The Royal Gazette, 12 octobre 2002. 3 http://www.ubp.bm/news/. 4 Caribbean Net News, 2 mars 2004, http://www.caribbeannetnews.com. 5 ViewsWire, 19 mai 2004; Bermuda finance: Government to seek debt refinancing, http://www.viewswire.com. 6 http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bd.html. 7 http://www.iif.edu/academicresources/els/20040129els001.htm. 8 The Royal Gazette, 5 novembre 2004 et 13 janvier 2005; Economist Intelligence Unit viewswire, 16 novembre 2004, http://www.viewswire.com. 9 Bermuda Sun, 20 février 2004. 0524697f.doc 15 A/AC.109/2005/5 10 http://www.eiu.com; http://www.bankofbermuda.com; The Independent, 29 octobre 2003; South China Morning Post, 3 novembre 2003; International Money Marketing; novembre 2003; Financial Times; 9 mars 2004. 11 Bermuda Sun, 20 février 2004. 12 The Royal Gazette, 5 juillet 2004. 13 World Travel and Tourism Council, 2004. 14 BBC Monitoring Americas, 25 janvier 2005. 15 Economist Intelligence Unit ViewsWire, 15 décembre 2004. 16 Travel and Tourism Economic Research, 2004. 17 The Royal Gazette, 22 décembre 2004. 18 The Royal Gazette, 26 octobre 2004. 19 Bermuda Sun, 20 février 2004. 20 The Royal Gazette, 4 juin-26 octobre 2004. 21 Bermuda Sun, 20 février 2004. 22 Ministère de l’éducation et du développement, 2004; Initiatives – 1998-2004; The Royal Gazette, 31 mai et 9 juillet 2004.; Financial Times, 9 mars 2004 23 BBC Monitoring Americas, 30 novembre 2004. 24 The World Gazette, 26 avril, 19 juin et 5 novembre 2004. 25 BBC Monitoring Americas, 8 décembre 2004. 26 The Royal Gazette, 27 août et 11 octobre 2004 et 2 janvier 2005. 27 The Royal Gazette, 2 avril, 1er et 3 juin 2004; BBC Monitoring Americas, 17 mars 2004. 28 http://www.plp.bm, 10 décembre 2004. 29 Bermuda Sun, 17 décembre 2004; A Country divided. 30 The Royal Gazette, 3 mars 2004; http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news, 22 décembre 2004. 31 The Royal Gazette, 24 et 27 décembre et 1er octobre 2004. 32 The Royal Gazette, 9 juillet 2004. 33 The Royal Gazette, 26 octobre 2004. 34 The Royal Gazette, 6 juillet 2004.

Today there are approximately 1.2 million households living in public housing units, managed by approximately 3,300 housing authorities, which include a variety of options from single-family houses to high-rise apartments. (...) Expiring long-term rental assistance contracts and Section 8 vouchers 34. Options for low-income families and individuals are further reduced due to other pressures on the stock of affordable housing including “expiring use”. (...) It seeks, inter alia, to prevent foreclosures by working with private industry to offer affordable loan refinancing and loan modifications. From the inception of this programme there have been questions as to whether it could diminish the wave of foreclosures.

In 2013, the independent Constitutional Advisory Panel recommended that the Government explore options for amending the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act by adding economic, social and cultural rights, property rights and environmental rights to it. (...) The Special Rapporteur would also like to acknowledge several positive steps taken by the Government: (a) The adoption of the Aotearoa/New Zealand Homelessness Action Plan: Phase One 2020–2023, published in February 2020; (b) The adoption of the Māori and Iwi Housing Innovation Framework for Action; (c) The efforts of the Government to end rough sleeping throughout the country in the context of the COVID-19 response, by making over 1,000 emergency places available in motels with the commitment to keeping those requiring those places housed until long term-housing options are identified for them; (d) The prohibition of any rent increases between 26 March 2020 and 25 September 2020 and restrictions on tenancy terminations between 26 March 2020 and 25 June 2020, and the introduction of new rules allowing rent increases only once per year;10 (e) The adoption of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act of 2020, which included reform aimed at increasing security of tenure for people in rental accommodation; (f) The phasing-in of healthy homes standards, targeting a significant number of rental households living in unhealthy or substandard accommodations;11 (g) The development of the Accessibility Policy 2019–2022 of the public housing provider Kāinga Ora, which has committed to ensuring that at least 15 per cent of new houses 6 E/C.12/NZL/CO/4, paras. 5–6. 7 Alan Johnson, Philippa Howden-Chapman and Shamubeel Eaqub, A Stocktake of New Zealand’s Housing (New Zealand, 2018). 8 Statement of Strategic Intentions for 2019–2023 (February 2019), p. 6. 9 Ibid. 10 See www.hud.govt.nz/residential-housing/covid-19-rent-freeze-and-tenancy-terminations/. 11 See www.hud.govt.nz/residential-housing/healthy-rental-homes/healthy-homes-standards/.

Russell (sous la direction de), The Human Right to Water: Theory, Practice and Prospects (Cambridge, Royaume-Uni, Cambridge University Press, 2017), p. 502. 48 Voir David Pilling, « World Bank set for Uganda dam refinancing talks despite criticism », Financial Times, 7 mars 2018. 49 Voir Royaume-Uni, National Audit Office, PF1 and PF2, rapport du Contrôleur et Vérificateur général des comptes (Londres, 2018). 50 Voir Cour des comptes européenne, Les partenariats public-privé dans l’UE : de multiples insuffisances et des avantages limités . 51 Voir Languille, « Public-private partnerships in education and health in the global South », p. 156, et Germà Bel et Xavier Fageda, « What have we learned from the last three decades of empirical studies on factors driving local privatization?

Member States in serious financial difficulties have in the end only two options: either they have to reach agreement on adjustment and fiscal consolidation measures with the “institutions”, or risk default. 18. (...) While debt service costs in some countries may still be manageable in the short run, they could significantly increase should the period of historically low interest rates come to an end, making the refinancing of public debt more expensive. Even today, the cost of 17 For a more comprehensive review, see Aleksandra Ivanoković Tamamović, “The impact of the crisis on fundamental rights across Member States of the EU: comparative analysis”, European Parliament, 2015. 18 The European Union as a Community of Values: Safeguarding Fundamental Rights in Times of Crisis, 2013, pp. 16-19.