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(a)
Ensure informal and non-standard workers have access to workplace
rights and entitlements, including access to social protection, health care, paid leave
and occupational health and safety provisions, in particular providing protection in
the context of economic and environmental shocks;
(b)
Ratify and implement the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No.
189), and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant
Workers and Members of Their Families to ensure that migrant workers and
domestic workers are protected against discrimination and abuse, and have access to
rights and entitlements, including social protection, health care, paid leave and
occupational health and safety provisions;
(c)
Remove all discrimination against migrant women workers, including in
migration policies and laws, including employment laws, and introduce legal
safeguards against their exploitation;
(d)
Ensure women’s equal rights to own, control and access land, credit and
other productive resources and the enjoyment without discrimination by peasant
women and other women working in rural areas of all the human rights and
fundamental freedoms set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas, including decent employment,
equal remuneration and social protection benefits, access to income-generating
activities and freedom from all forms of violence.
F.
Create enabling conditions for women’s collective action and
organizing
68.
With a view to creating enabling conditions for women’s collective action and
organizing, the Working Group recommends that:
(a)
Trade unions introduce specific measures to ensure women’s equal
representation in decision-making and the incorporation of women’s specific concerns
in organizing priorities and collective agreements, and establish policies to prevent
and eliminate violence and harassment within unions;
(b)
States ensure enabling conditions for women’s collective action,
including securing the right to freedom of association for all workers, not excluding
those in non-standard and informal forms of work, guaranteeing protection for those
organizing and claiming their rights, in accordance with the ILO Freedom of
Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87)
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