A/HRC/33/59
• Social security should be universal, but not uniform, ensuring specific and
multiple vulnerabilities; and special temporary measures for socially and
economically excluded groups including single women, female-headed
households, migrants and migrant workers; Dalit, tribal; sexual and gender
minorities; women with occupational stigma and women in conflict areas.
• States should frame the reproductive and care role that women have as work. If
a woman cannot do that work (because she is ill, disabled, etc.), she should get
unemployment benefits.
• Poor rural women do not have documents that are generally required to apply
for state benefits. Therefore, social security schemes should not require
bureaucratic administrative processes that alienate women. Instead, they
should strive to be women- friendly in design. Many poor rural women are
illiterate and therefore information about various schemes and benefits should
be given a clear, simple, women-friendly way.
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