A/HRC/11/32 page 12 guiding principles on the justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights. Kamal Siddiqui, a member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, recommended a provision addressing effective pro-poor justice at the grass-roots level, since the formal justice system is too costly for the poor to afford. The Special Rapporteur on indigenous people remarked that those living in extreme poverty should also have the opportunity to access traditional/customary legal systems. 38. It was noted that paragraph 40 provides for free legal assistance but fails to address the important issue of court fees in civil proceedings, which the poor often cannot afford. The Government of Belgium and the 2008 NGO Consultation proposed an explicit reference to the obligation of the State and the judicial administration to provide the possibility of legal redress. 39. The relevance of the right to information was mentioned by Joseph Ingram in the context of poverty reduction programmes. The Special Rapporteur on indigenous people recommended mentioning that the educational and public information programmes on rights and judicial proceedings be made available in the relevant indigenous or minority languages. Some participants16 suggested that the training programmes mentioned in paragraph 41 also target police officers and civil servants responsible for implementing the law. Economic, social and cultural rights 40. Many respondents pointed out the lack of reference in section 2 to some social and economic rights of particular relevance to people living in extreme poverty. The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community remarked that while some attention is devoted to land rights, particularly in the subsection on the right to food, there is need to devote a separate subsection in the draft guiding principles to that issue, in particular as regards the rights of indigenous peoples, but also, in the view of the latter, with regard to women. Kamal Siddiqui advocated for the inclusion of a right to credit. Access to credit on easy terms should constitute a basic right of the extremely poor. 41. A large number of NGOs and academics emphasized the stark omission of the right to social security, with Professor David Gordon, of the University of Bristol, also remarking on the absence of any reference to ILO Convention No. 102 on Social Security. HelpAge International and Sightsavers International suggested that references be included to the effect that States should 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 that States unable to make such payments on their own be required to seek the assistance of the international community. Camilo Pérez Bustillo also noted the importance of referring to the right to an adequate standard of living. 16 ATD and the Comité Supérieur des Droits de l’homme et des libertés fondamentales Tunisien.

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