A/HRC/6/17 page 22 68. The main focus of the anti-terror package was the implementation of structural measures to prevent terrorism. One of the strategies chosen was the promotion of economic and social rights for special groups, for example, youth without job prospects, who, excluded from participation in social and economic development processes, are susceptible to recruitment by criminal or violent groups. Such special groups should be integrated more intensively into development cooperation programmes. VI. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS A. Conclusions 69. The Special Rapporteur concludes that counter-terrorism measures have both a direct and an indirect impact on the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights. The measures adopted by States to combat terrorism often pose serious challenges to economic, social and cultural rights. States therefore need to be mindful of their duty to ensure the conditions allowing all people living within their jurisdiction to enjoy all human rights, including economic, social and cultural rights. This is particularly important as the promotion of those rights should be seen as a means of addressing conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism and hence of preventing acts of terrorism. 70. The social and economic marginalization of and discrimination against vulnerable groups, such as minorities, indigenous peoples or underprivileged households of women and children often amount to violations of their human rights, in particular of their economic, social and cultural rights. These circumstances may also provide fertile soil for recruitment to movements that promise a prospect for change but resort to the unacceptable means of acts of terrorism. 71. Through their negative impact on the effective enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights, insensitive counter-terrorism measures, even when they may have a justification as permissible limitations to human rights, often result in counterproductive effects that undermine the long-term beneficial role of the promotion of economic, social and cultural rights in sustainable strategies to prevent terrorism. B. Recommendations 72. With reference to his country-specific work, the Special Rapporteur makes the following recommendations: (a) Without attempting to be exhaustive, the Special Rapporteur wishes to illustrate possible strategies and concrete steps in the field of the promotion and protection of economic, social and cultural rights while countering terrorism, by way of recommendations based on the experience of countries with which he has engaged in close cooperation; (b) Referring to his “desktop study” on Australia (A/HRC/4/26/Add.3), the Special Rapporteur recommends that, when Australia and other donor countries assist other States to adopt and develop their counter-terrorism laws and mechanisms, due attention be paid to securing the compliance of those measures with human rights and to