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	CCPR/C/94/Add.2 - State Party Report - Iceland
		Iceland is a party to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on the abolition of the death penalty, and the Sixth Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights concerning the abolition of the death penalty.
		Icelandic general legislation that may have a bearing on article 14 is almost identical to what it was at the time of writing of the second report, and very little can be added.
		Icelandic legislation is in harmony with this provision of the Covenant.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord1998/documentation/tbodies/ccpr-c-94-add2.htm (10869 words)

	Icelandic - Political System - in Iceland.
		Iceland is a republic with a written constitution and a parliamentary form of government.
		The Icelandic constitution is very similar to the Danish constitution and some articles have even been copied and translated over to Icelandic.
		The Icelandic Parliament is called Althingi and is one of the oldest parliaments in Europe (established in 930).
	www.icelandexport.is /icelandexport2/english/about_iceland/political_system_in_iceland (601 words)

	CAT Report - Iceland (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Icelandic law ensures that a person cannot be extradited or sent back to another State if there is a significant reason to believe that he or she faces a risk of torture there.
		Iceland is a party to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951 and the Protocol of 1967.
		Icelandic criminal statutes are as a general rule formulated so as to declare some specific act or conduct punishable, and the consequences of the act or conduct may be decisive as to what criminal provision is applied.
	www.law.wits.ac.za /humanrts/cat/iceland1998.html (11917 words)

	Iceland: Milestones in Icelandic History
		Iceland´s history dates back to the first Icelandic settler, Ingolfur Arnarson who settled in Reykjavik in 874 AD.
		Icelanders became a subjected people dependent on Norwegian ships for supplies, which often failed to come.
		Denmark seriously contemplated relocating the remaining population of Iceland in the moors of Jutland in Denmark.
	iceland.vefur.is /Iceland_history/history.htm (1556 words)

	History & Memory--Þingvellir An Icelandic "Lieu de Mémoire"
		Throughout the nineteenth century, Icelandic national sentiments were fueled by a mixture of pride in the Icelandic cultural achievements in the Middle Ages and a conservative reaction to a growing economic liberalism in Copenhagen, defending the traditions and social norms of Icelandic peasant society.
		According to this nationalistic perception of history, foreign rule was the cause of the slow deterioration of the Icelandic economy and culture from the fourteenth century until the beginning of the national revival of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
		With the constitution of 1874, "a new chapter began in Icelandic history," wrote the politician and educator Jónas Jónsson in the immensely influential primer that was to form the historical perception of generations of Icelanders from its first publication in 1915-1916 until it finally ceased to be used in the 1970s.
	iupjournals.org /history/ham12-1.html (7948 words)

	deaf.is -> Constitution of the Icelandic Association of the Deaf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Icelandic Association of the Deaf is a national organisation and its purpose is to:
		The Icelandic Association of the Deaf is a member of the Nordic Council of the Deaf, the Icelandic Federation of the Handicapped and the World Federation of the Deaf.
		Constitution of the Icelandic Association of the Deaf
	www.deaf.is /english/constitution.html (1971 words)

	An analysis of the Icelandic Supreme Court judgement on the Health Sector Database Act
		The Icelandic Supreme Court answers this question clearly in the affirmative and argues that due to the richness of the data and the fact that the Health Sector Database would link up with the genealogical and the genetic database, individual persons could be identified without the use of complicated technology and great manpower.
		In interviews with Icelandic citizens it became clear that in order to opt out, people had to actively seek out their physicians’ surgeries and request a form, then fill it in and resubmit it, proved to be too much of an effort.
		From this fact, the Icelandic Supreme Court drew the conclusion that even without having access to the identity number or the name and address of the individual, an identification could be possible and accordingly both the terms of the Constitution and international treaties regarding the handling of personally identifiable data applied.
	www.law.ed.ac.uk /ahrb/script-ed/issue2/iceland.asp (7802 words)

	Iceland_CBC_3
		However, the Icelandic authorities have stated that domestic legislation in Iceland is in line with the Convention and ECRI is pleased to note that the authorities intend to ratify this instrument in the very near future.
		ECRI strongly recommends that the Icelandic authorities ensure that organisations active in the field of promoting and protecting human rights, including combating racism and racial discrimination, in Iceland receive adequate public funds for their work and that such funds are made available to them in a manner that guarantees their independence and effectiveness.
		The Icelandic authorities have pointed out that in 2004 a curriculum for immigrants in relation to the 2002 Act on Foreigners was prepared in cooperation with the University of Education and that a draft of this curriculum has been used to organise Icelandic language courses for immigrants.
	www.coe.int /t/e/human_rights/ecri/1-ECRI/2-Country-by-country_approach/Iceland/Iceland_CBC_3.asp (10365 words)

	Faculty of Law - Courses in the Faculty of Law
		The provisions of the Constitution of Iceland No. 33/1944 are studied with special emphasis on its fundamental principles such as the separation of the three branches of Government.
		Developments of the Icelandic legal system from the settlement of Iceland in the ninth century to the present are discussed, as well as some general comments given on the constitutional history of Iceland.
		The main objective is to explain Icelandic legislation on the issue, and in particular to cover the EIA-procedure, the role of public authorities and the developer as well as to cover issues related to possible revisions of EIAs (substance and procedure) within the administrative system as well as before the courts.
	www.hi.is /prog/catalogue/law.html (7813 words)

	GlobaLex - Researching Icelandic Law
		Constitution. Since the establishment of the Republic of Iceland in 1944, the President has only once refused consent, in the summer of 2004. The bill was on the ownership of media and was very controversial.
		Constitution stipulate that the President entrusts his authority to Ministers and that his signature validates a legislative act or government measure when countersigned by a Minister. According to Art.
		Constitution that in the performance of their official duties, judges shall be guided solely by the law.
	www.nyulawglobal.org /globalex/Iceland.htm (2619 words)

	Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, Concluding Observations/Comments - Iceland
		In introducing the report, the representative of Iceland informed the Committee that the original first report of 1987 had by mistake never been submitted and that the current initial and second report covered the period up to 31 December 1991.
		While the Committee commended the Government of Iceland for amending the Constitution and enacting the Equal Status Act, it was of the opinion that if the Convention had not thereby been incorporated fully into the domestic law of Iceland, then the implementation of the principles of the Convention was adversely affected.
		The Committee welcomed the inclusion in the Constitution in 1994 of a provision guaranteeing the enjoyment of human rights without prejudice to gender and was impressed with the work being done by the Equal Status Council.
	www.umn.edu /humanrts/cedaw/cedaw-iceland.htm (1697 words)

	University of Minnesota Template Page
		As Iceland’s last report (CAT/C/37/Add.2 of 9 June 1998) was also its first, Part I contained a detailed account of its constitutional structure and form of government, with a description of the role of the legislature, executive and judiciary and also the functions of the Parliamentary Ombudsman.
		’s initial report to continue to serve its purpose as a source about the constitutional structure and form of government of the country, it is necessary to update it, and this is done in the beginning of Part I of the present report.
		’s initial report, this provision was introduced into the Constitution as a result of the amendment made by Act No. 97/1995; prior to that, however, it had been regarded as a fundamental unwritten principle that no one was to be subjected to torture.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/cat/iceland2002.html (7679 words)

	Milestones in Iceland's history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The first Althing (Parliament) and the establishment of the Republic of Iceland at Þingvellir.
		Skálholt becomes the diocesan seat of the first bishopric of Iceland.
		The mounumental History of the Kings of Norway, and the first vernacualar history, the Book of Icelanders, were written during this period.
	www.south.is /milestones.html (479 words)

	What the People of Iceland Are Saying \| Clearharmony - Falundafa in Europe
		In that respect it does not matter whether those people were Icelandic or foreign visitors...But putting up "fl lists" of people that could maybe have "unwanted" beliefs or opinions and taking away those people's freedom to travel is no better than the procedures of the Soviet-communism in the past.
		The people of Iceland do not want our country to be known to other nations to be the country were human rights and the freedom of belief is severely violated, when the authorities like it to be so.
		Iceland is the only western country that has banned Falun Gong practitioners from entering their country.
	www.clearharmony.net /articles/200208/6220.html (962 words)

	EU Related News From Iceland
		The Icelandic people will not put the authority of their natural resources and livelihood in the hands of others, not at present nor in the future, and believe the EU's Common Fisheries Policy, which has been shaped with other nations and other circumstances in mind, cannot suit Iceland and the Icelandic people.
		For one thing we Icelanders are very fond of our independence and believe it has been the key factor in changing Iceland from being one of the poorest countries in Europe in the beginning of the 20th century to be one of the richest countries in the world today.
		There he said that the rejection of the EU constitution in France and the Netherlands was positive for the pro-EU movement in Iceland since the constitution would have ment more centralisation for the EU, less flexibility and less chance for Iceland to get favourable agreement with the Union in case of membership negotiations.
	eunews.blogspot.com (4176 words)

	Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Constitution may be amended at any General Meeting of the Federation with the exception of a meeting called under Article VIII, Sec.
		This register shall be known as the Canadian Icelandic Horse Federation Stud Book, hereinafter referred to as the Stud Book, and shall be published by the Canadian Live Stock Records at such time as decided by the Board of Directors.
		In the case of animals imported directly from Iceland, this certification may either be in the form of a certificate of mating signed by the appropriate authority or an endorsement to that effect on the mare's registration certificate.
	www.cihf.ca /const.htm (3714 words)

	University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
		Icelandic legislation and rules based on enacted laws now stipulate in detail interrogation procedure and the conditions afforded detained persons.
		When the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture visited Iceland in the summer of 1993, it made the observation that formal interrogation rules, giving among other things detailed description of the procedure to be followed in various contexts, were lacking in Iceland.
		The Committee also observed that more detailed rules were needed on the right of an arrested person to have a close relative or other party, as the arrested person might require, notified of the arrest.
	hei.unige.ch /humanrts/cat/iceland1998.html (12995 words)

	FOR THE RECORD 2001 cerd-c-384-add1
		According to section 1 of the Act, a child will acquire Icelandic citizenship at birth if its mother is an Icelandic citizen, or if its father is an Icelandic citizen and married to the mother.
		According to section 2 a of the Act, a foreign child adopted by an Icelandic national with the permission of the Icelandic authorities will automatically acquire Icelandic citizenship on adoption, if the child is under the age of 12 years.
		Section 9 of the Act provides that the President may release from Icelandic citizenship a person who demonstrates that he or she will, within a particular period, become a foreign national, or has already become a foreign national.
	www.hri.ca /forthereCord2001/documentation/tbodies/cerd-c-384-add1.htm (4647 words)

	Report of the Constitution Review Group - Articles 40 - 44
		In the Netherlands, for example, the courts enjoy no power to declare a law to be inconsistent with the Constitution, but they may declare the law to be inconsistent with the ECHR on the basis that treaty law takes precedence in the case of conflict over domestic law.
		In their report (Frumvarp til laga um mannréttindasáttmala Evrópu, 1993), a majority of the committee noted that when Iceland first ratified the ECHR it had been assumed that the provisions of Icelandic law were in conformity with it.
		Finally, the replacement of the fundamental rights provisions of the Constitution by the text of the ECHR would represent too great a change in our legal system and one which would not be warranted by any existing flaws in those provisions.
	pages.zoom.co.uk /david-surridge/ConstRevGrpArt40-44.htm (2148 words)

	Report of the Constitution Review Group - Articles 40 - 44
		In the Netherlands, for example, the courts enjoy no power to declare a law to be inconsistent with the Constitution, but they may declare the law to be inconsistent with the ECHR on the basis that treaty law takes precedence in the case of conflict over domestic law.
		In their report (Frumvarp til laga um mannréttindasáttmala Evrópu, 1993), a majority of the committee noted that when Iceland first ratified the ECHR it had been assumed that the provisions of Icelandic law were in conformity with it.
		Finally, the replacement of the fundamental rights provisions of the Constitution by the text of the ECHR would represent too great a change in our legal system and one which would not be warranted by any existing flaws in those provisions.
	www.esatclear.ie /~dejames/ConstRevGrpArt40-44.htm (2148 words)

	The Athenian Constitution: Government by Jury and Referendum by Roderick T. Long
		The idea behind the Mixed Constitution was to combine elements of democracy with elements of oligarchy, the theory being that this was the best way to achieve the goal of balancing the interests of the many against the interests of the few.
		Their favored remedy, the Mixed Constitution, tilts the scales of power decisively in favor of the rich once the power of patronage is taken into account – the Roman Republic being an obvious case in point.
		Paterson fails to recognize patronage as playing a role in the constitutional structure, as she often fails to see structure that is informal and not codified into law.
	www.lewrockwell.com /long/long8.html (13001 words)

	Amsterdam 2.0 Constitution
		Convicted criminals shall not have their liberty restricted except so far as is necessary for the protection of others, nor their property seized except so far as is necessary to make restitution to the victim and to pay the costs of the criminal's capture and trial.
		1.5.2 The political constitution of each CITY shall initially be chosen by majority vote of its members; subsequent CITY laws shall be passed, and measures for enforcement determined, in accordance with the provisions of that constitution.
		The constitution and laws of each CITY shall be binding on its members, subject to the provision that such constitution and laws may not conflict with the Constitution of AMSTERDAM 2.0, and that free exit and entry must always be permitted.
	www.alamut.com /proj/98/adam2/proj/constitAdam2.html (3224 words)

	Virtual Cantons:
		Framing a constitution is an exercise in public-choice economics; politicians react to incentives, and so the political incentive structure must be designed in such a way that those in authority cannot profit by the aggrandizement of state power.
		Madison and his colleagues could not foresee the logrolling process whereby government branches and special interests ("factions") that were intended to hold one another in perpetual check instead made concessions to one another's ambitions in exchange for like concessions to their own.
		The constitution of a free nation, then, should most likely be characterized by a radically decentralized power structure, along the lines of some sort of canton system.
	libertariannation.org /a/f11l1.html (2134 words)

	Welcome to the United States Icelandic Horse Congress Website! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Icelandic Horse community worldwide is governed by FEIF, the International Federation of Icelandic Horse Associations.
		The United Icelandic Horse Congress was formed in 1987 as an umbrella organization to join together two US organizations, the U.S. Icelandic Horse Federation and the International Icelandic Horse Association to meet the FEIF rule that only one association from each country is allowed to represent the breed.
		Your membership dues are spent on the day-to-day operation of the Congress, including publication of The Icelandic Horse Quarterly, maintenance of the USIHC website < www.icelandics.org > and e-mail account (info@icelandics.org), publication of promotional brochures, creation of displays, and other general informational projects.
	www.icelandics.org /faq.html (1366 words)

	Jón Sigurdsson, Iceland (1811-1879 ) - Hall of Freedom - Politics - Liberalism
		Sigurdsson is known as the Father of Independence in Iceland.
		An advocate of Icelandic autonomy, Sigurdsson took part in discussions that led to the Danish King Christian IX's restoration of the old Icelandic Althing (parliament) as an advisory body in 1843, and he later became its speaker.
		In 1874, Denmark granted a constitution that allowed Iceland control its own finances and legislative power that was to be shared with the Danish crown.
	www.liberal-international.org /editorial.asp?ia_id=952&lang=french (133 words)

	Links to some interesting sites
		Virtually, virtual Iceland is full of all kinds of useful information about Iceland and Icelanders.
		Desert in Iceland - One of the features that charm many visitors to Iceland is the fl desert landscape of the central highlands.
		Whether you're planning to visit Iceland, or are just curious, a visit to the website of The Icelandic Tourist Board is a must.
	www.isholf.is /gullis/jo/links.htm (410 words)

	EFF "Iceland Issues & Policy" Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Warnings of an amendment to the Icelandic Constitution which would severely curtail free speech.
		The Icelandic government's response to Kevin Marvel (his letter can be found below).
		Kevin Marvel's letter to the Icelandic government asking for repeal of one amended portion of the Constitution.
	ftp.eff.org /Global/Iceland (64 words)

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