A/HRC/7/32 page 10 45. Due to the high percentage of undocumented persons throughout the world, the International Federation of Social Workers proposed that the second sentence of paragraph 15 recognize the right of persons living in extreme poverty to be registered at birth, entitling them to an identification document or other document constituting evidence of their legal status. 46. The NGO Committee for Social Development suggested that the draft guiding principles acknowledge that the inadequacy of policies for some groups of migrants effectively criminalizes the poor and proposed that the draft guiding principles recognize that economic refugees should also have access to rights. The Committee called for the recognition of the land rights of various indigenous peoples. It also suggested that the draft guiding principles recognize States as violators of civil and political rights when they fail to protect and act in a corrupt system. 47. Light for the World suggested stressing in paragraph 15 the importance of effective participation of persons living in extreme poverty. 48. Care International considered the drawing up of education programmes, as proposed in paragraph 17, to be insufficient and suggested that the paragraph require States to allocate adequate resources to develop such programmes and stipulate that they monitor and follow up on these programmes. 49. Light for the World and Care International proposed expanding the list in paragraph 15 of groups whose protection should be ensured by States to include people with disabilities, people with mental illnesses, and indigenous people. Light for the World suggested that the phrase “subjects of law” be removed from paragraph 19. 50. HelpAge International and Sightsavers International suggested adding distinct guidelines on the right to identity as well as on the right to social security. In particular, they highlighted the need to give persons living in extreme poverty access to identification documentation that would allow them to take advantage of other entitlements including health care, education and employment. They suggested the draft guiding principles require States to provide regular and predictable income in the form of non-contributory cash transfers to poor persons unable to make regular payments into national insurance or contributory pension schemes that would guarantee them an adequate standard of living, and proposed that States unable to make such payments on their own be required to seek the assistance of the international community, which would be obligated to provide such assistance. E. Right to food 51. The Government of Colombia suggested rephrasing the second sentence in paragraph 20 to read “the State and the international community should guarantee each human being, individually and in community, the rights to access food physically and provide him with the economic means to have access to basic food supply”. The Government of Colombia also suggested replacing “agrarian reform” in the second sentence of paragraph 21 with “mechanisms and policies” and “minorities descended from slaves” in the same sentence with “Afro-descendants”.

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