A/HRC/16/22 health-service coverage, full enjoyment of the right to health continues to be restricted. Approximately 17.5 per cent of the population suffers from at least one serious health problem33 and inequality and insufficient access, availability and quality of health services persist for people living in poverty, including remote rural populations, internally displaced persons, indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian communities. 99. High levels of informal employment persist,34 contributing to greater income instability and lack of access to protection granted by social security services.35 Moreover, the International Labour Organization has expressed concern regarding certain violations of labour rights, such as legislation allowing salary gaps between men and women, in violation of the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value, and discrimination in access to employment based on race, colour and social background.36 IV. Summary of activities of OHCHR-Colombia 100. OHCHR-Colombia continued to fulfil its mandate to observe, to provide advice and technical cooperation and to promote human rights. Out of 800 complaints received, OHCHR-Colombia followed up on 771. A total of 196 observation missions were undertaken, which represented 666 days in the field. It participated in 2,983 meetings: 1,499 with public institutions, 878 with civil society representatives, 357 with United Nations agencies, and 249 with the international community. 101. Special attention was paid to judicial proceedings, such as those for the massacre of the Awá people in August 2009, the cases against a former DAS director, the enforced disappearances that occurred during the 1985 Palace of Justice events, and some cases of extrajudicial executions. 102. OHCHR-Colombia offered advice during the legislative debates on the draft act on victims and land restitution, the act to pay homage to victims of enforced disappearance, and the ratification process of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. It also participated in the National Round Table on Guarantees for human rights defenders, collaborated in the strategy to implement the PLANEDH and conducted a joint evaluation of the needs and priorities of the National Ombudsperson’s Office. In addition, it facilitated an international-level exchange of experiences on purging intelligence files, and on mechanisms for the democratic control of intelligence services. 103. A project was initiated, together with indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian communities, on a participatory formulation of an instrument on the right to consultation and another was initiated with the Ministry of Defence to monitor the measures adopted to overcome extrajudicial executions. 104. OHCHR-Colombia participated in the commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the tragic 1985 Palace of Justice events, where, for the first time, all victims 33 34 35 36 Ibid. The rate of informality surpassed 57.7 per cent in 2009. Plataforma Colombiana de Derechos Humanos, Democracia y Desarrollo and Escuela Nacional Sindical, Informe nacional de trabajo decente 2009 (Medellín, 2010). Concluding observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (E/C.12/COL/CO/5). Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, report submitted to the ninety-ninth session of the International Conference on Labour, 2010. 17