A/HRC/11/32 page 10 26. Specific remarks on the participation of women were made by Peter Townsend, Care International, and the Ukrainian Parliament Commission for Human Rights. However, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community remarked that the feminization of poverty and the participation of women in anti-poverty strategies are not the same issue and should not be included together in a section on participation. It further suggested that recognition of the feminization of poverty should be mainstreamed throughout the document. 27. Light for the World advocated the full and effective participation of persons living in extreme poverty in all activities that concern them and in programmes for the eradication of extreme poverty. Joseph Ingram highlighted participation in the monitoring and evaluation phases. The Government of Finland highlighted the need to state in the subsection on participation by the poor that the poorest should have the right to be informed of their rights and of the obligations of their Governments to implement those rights. At the seminar, ATD and CIVICUS reiterated the need to describe the conditions necessary for meaningful participation to avoid token participation or the manipulation of participation. 28. The Government of Georgia remarked that the participation of people living in extreme poverty in programmes for the eradication of extreme poverty should be voluntary. Discrimination and stigmatization 29. The need for consistency with the conventional language of equality and non-discrimination was remarked by several respondents, including the Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Court (France) and former Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. At the seminar, the Government of Bolivia, the independent expert on foreign debt and the Special Rapporteur on the right to health insisted that a conceptual differentiation needs to be made between stigmatization that is a social construct and discrimination that is a legal construct. 30. Regarding stigmatization of the poor, the International Federation of Social Workers suggested that certain outward appearances or certain types of behaviour, including theft, aggression and other forms of violence, do not exclusively characterize the poor or the extremely poor. The Equal Opportunity Commission of Hong Kong suggested that stigmatization based on social and income status should be specifically denounced. The South African Human Rights Commission stated that the draft guiding principles do not identify the entity responsible for punishing those who discriminate. The Governments of Costa Rica and Mexico and Care International mentioned the impact that means of communication and education systems has on discrimination and stigmatization processes. 31. The Government of the Philippines noted that paragraph 12 could be expanded to include a statement on affirmative action.