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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A revised version of the draft guiding principles should:
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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.
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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
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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.
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