CRPD/C/GC/8 measures; protections against violence, including gender based violence, harassment and forced labour; and the transition from the informal to the formal economy; (e) Develop a national employment strategy and plan of action, inclusive of persons with disabilities, that is devised and reviewed on the basis of a participatory and transparent process, and that includes methods such as indicators and benchmarks by which progress can be monitored; (f) Ensure that the protection and promotion of the right of persons with disabilities to work is integrated into emerging areas of work and employment, including the digital economy, teleworking, regulation of the gig economy and of the platform economy, economic reactivation or recovery from crisis, transition to a green economy, and use of artificial intelligence in recruitment and work; (g) Ensure that measures to protect and promote the right to work cover the diversity of persons with disabilities, their professional experience and skills; (h) Ensure that measures are taken to eliminate the exploitation of women with disabilities, children with disabilities and gender-nonconforming persons with disabilities in the formal and informal economy and in unpaid work, including the following: ensuring parental leave rights for all; taking affirmative action to increase the number of women with disabilities in the formal work sector; adopting laws and policies to allow for sufficient paid parental leave, for affordable, accessible and appropriate childcare of good quality, and for social protection that does not negatively affect persons with disabilities who are pregnant or those who must take leave to meet caregiving obligations; adopting laws and policies to protect all child workers from conditions that violate their rights; and adopting laws and policies to ensure that employers prevent and respond to gender-based violence efficiently and to promote a paradigm shift related to cultural and societal norms that contribute to gender-based violence; (i) Expeditiously phase out segregated employment, including sheltered workshops, by adopting concrete action plans, with resources, time frames and monitoring mechanisms, to ensure the transition from segregated employment to the open labour market, which include obligations: (i) To review the laws, policies, approaches and assumptions on which the promotion of sheltered employment has been based; (ii) To closely consult with and actively involve persons with disabilities, through their representative organizations, as a matter of priority, in the design, implementation and monitoring of transition processes; (j) Develop and carry out knowledge, awareness-raising and capacity-building programmes, with the meaningful participation of persons with disabilities, through their representative organizations, including training in the public and private sectors and the informal economy, to ensure compliance with the Convention; (k) Establish methods for collecting appropriately disaggregated data, according to a strong human rights conceptual and methodological framework, as set out in Human Rights Indicators: A Guide to Measurement and Implementation,69 to facilitate understanding of the situation of persons with disabilities in and out of employment, with particular attention to the relevance and efficacy of State party measures to promote employment in the formal economy; (l) Establish accessible and effective redress mechanisms and ensure access to justice, on an equal basis with others, for victims of discrimination based on disability, encompassing access by all persons with disabilities to effective judicial and/or administrative procedures, including effective and accessible complaints mechanisms, and to appropriate, affordable and quality legal aid; 69 18 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Geneva, 2012). See also CRPD/C/CZE/CO/1, para. 14.

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