(d) ensuring that mechanisms of redress provide not only for the full payment of the overdue
amounts, but also for fair compensation for the losses incurred on account of delayed payment.
Social security
The State party should take measures to progressively bring its State social standards in line
with its core obligations under articles 7, 9 and 11 of the Covenant and progressively increase
their amounts.
Poverty
The Committee draws the State party’s attention to its statement concerning Poverty and the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (E/C.12/2001/10) and
recommends that the State party strengthen its efforts to combat poverty, with a particular
focus on most disadvantaged and marginalized individuals and groups, and reduce the
disparities between rural and urban areas. The State party should guarantee that its social
assistance system is effectively targeting the poor and ensure that adequate financial
resources are allocated for the effective implementation of poverty reduction programmes and
that these are adjusted accordingly when measures taken do not bring the expected positive
impact.
UPR Recommendations (2012)
Further strengthen a gender-sensitive approach in all poverty alleviation programmes.
Use a gender sensitive approach in all poverty alleviation programmes.
Theme 12: Right to adequate housing and right to food
Treaty Bodies
CESCR (2014)
Right to adequate housing and right to food
The State party should, taking into account Committee’s general comment no. 4 (1991) on the right to
adequate housing, adopt all appropriate measures to ensure access to adequate housing for Roma,
inter alia by ensuring that adequate resources are allocated to increase the supply of social housing
units and by providing appropriate forms of financial support, such as rental subsidies. The
Committee also recommends that the State party take steps to ensure that Roma communities are
consulted throughout the eviction procedures, are afforded due process guarantees and are
provided with alternative accommodation or compensation enabling them to acquire adequate
accommodation, taking into account the guidelines adopted by the Committee in its general
comment no. 7 (1997) on forced evictions. The Committee further recommends that the State party
take effective measures to secure access to adequate housing and food for asylum-seekers.
Theme 13: Right to education
Treaty Bodies
CRC (2011) recommended that Ukraine ensure adequate funding for the public education
system; improve availability, accessibility and the quality of general education in rural areas;
and seek assistance from UNICEF and UNESCO.
CRC urged Ukraine to develop a national plan of action for human rights education.
CESCR (2014)
Inclusive education for Roma
The Committee recommends that the State party address the segregation of Roma children in
schools and their overrepresentation in special educations schools by ensuring the effective
enforcement of its anti-discrimination legislation and by raising teachers’ and the general public
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