A/HRC/15/41 U. • Recommend paying particular attention to the situation of workers in the informal economy and caregivers. Call on States to collect disaggregated data assessing the dimensions of informal and care work. • Recommend adopting measures to remove impediments to integration into the formal labour market for persons living in extreme poverty, including by promoting skills development opportunities without discrimination of any kind. • Recall the obligations to prohibit and eliminate all forms of forced and bonded labour, as well as harmful and hazardous forms of child labour. Recommend that measures to enforce the prohibition of these forms of labour be accompanied by measures to ensure the social and economic reintegration of those affected and to avoid reoccurrence. • Recall the importance of addressing human trafficking in full compliance with human rights norms and recommend that trafficked persons be protected from further exploitation and harm regardless of their capacity or willingness to cooperate in legal proceedings.51 Right to social security 85. Both as a right in itself and as a means to securing other rights, social security is crucial for the respect and protection of the dignity of persons living in extreme poverty, including their right an adequate standard of living. Social protection can prevent people from falling into extreme poverty by helping them cope with different risks, shocks and crises beyond their control. 86. Persons living in extreme poverty often cannot enjoy their right to social security, due to inadequate and ineffective social protection programmes. Because they are more likely to work in the informal economy, or to hold insecure, low-paid jobs, they are the least likely to be included in contributory social security systems; despite this, most States lack non-contributory social security systems. Inappropriate targeting mechanisms, complicated eligibility criteria, corruption, and limited geographical outreach or coverage often generate inequalities in access to social security and social assistance. 87. 51 52 A revised version of the draft guiding principles should: • Recall State obligations to allocate the necessary resources and develop comprehensive social security programmes to provide universal, noncontributory social assistance as part of the minimum core content of the right to social security. • Recommend creating a basic set of essential social transfers, in cash and in kind, to be paid to the most vulnerable to provide minimum income security and access to essential health care.52 • Stress the relevance of adopting measures to ensure that groups at greater risk of poverty, such as children, women, persons with disabilities and older Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking (E/2002/68/Add.1). United Nations Chief Executives Board, “The social protection floor. A joint crisis initiative of the UN Chief Executives Board for co-ordination on the social protection floor” (2009), executive summary. 23

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