A/HRC/4/16 page 12 Right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health 40. Since the last report of the Special Rapporteur, the total expenditure on health in Belarus has dropped. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the total 2006 expenditure on health represented 5.5 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP), whereas it was 6.4 per cent in 2002. Right to education 41. Likewise, expenditures on education have decreased. In 2004, public expenditure on education was 5.8 per cent of GDP, whereas they were 6.0 per cent in 2003. 42. Following the issuance of a circular, “On measures of non-admittance of any pupils and students involved in unlawful political activities” by the Ministry of Education in May 2005, several students were expelled from educational institutions. For example, on 30 October 2006, Siarhei Huminski, a Young Front activist, was expelled from Svetlahorsk State Industrial Technical College for violating regulations and missing classes; he had been threatened with expulsion for his political activity in September by the head of the college. On 29 November, Alexander Stranchuk and Dzianis Sarokin, active participants in the election campaign, were expelled from the agro-ecology faculty of Hoerki academy. Women’s rights 43. The Special Rapporteur remains concerned about the lack of equality between men and women in the labour sector, mainly with regard to political life and decision-making. 44. Domestic violence is also an issue of concern, as it reportedly affects 30 per cent of women in Belarus. Reportedly, women usually escape domestic violence by divorcing, thus explaining the high divorce rate in Belarus. It has been acknowledged by some NGOs that domestic violence is a push factor for trafficking, as women seek to escape their home situation and feel that they have nothing to lose by emigrating. Resources and sustainability of the system 45. Belarus ranks 151 out of 163 countries in Transparency International’s 2006 Corruption Perceptions Index, with a corruption perception index of 2.1 out of 10 (0 indicating the highest level of perceived corruption). 46. On the basis of the available data, the Special Rapporteur concludes that the budgetary expenditures of Belarus (especially those related to the internal security forces and to the social safety net policies) cannot possibly be supported by the performance of the country’s highly centralized and relatively closed economy. A thorough international investigation into the origin of the financial resources funding these expenditures is therefore necessary. That origin may very well be of an illicit nature. 47. After the issuance of the Special Rapporteur’s last report on the situation of human rights in Belarus in January 2006 and its presentation to the Human Rights Council in September 2006,