A/HRC/26/39 106. Women are also highly vulnerable to trafficking for sexual or work exploitation. This form of gender-based violence will be addressed by the Working Group in its report on health and safety. VI. Recommendations 107. The Working Group calls on States to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and all relevant international human rights treaties and ILO Conventions which guarantee women’s economic and social rights. It calls upon them to implement the obligations therein, including by ratifying the Optional Protocols of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, by introducing the required constitutional and legislative guarantees, and by adopting a transformative agenda which will produce an outcome of de facto equality for women in their economic and social lives. 108. The Working Group additionally recommends the adoption of concrete measures based on the good practices which inform this thematic report. 109. A. The Working Group recommends that States: General 110. Eliminate discriminatory laws which create barriers to women’s formal or informal employment and to their enjoyment of economic and social rights; expressly guarantee women’s right to equality in economic and social life in the private as well as public sector, with immediate effect, and with special measures to accelerate de facto equality; 111. Ensure women’s access to judicial redress and remedies for discrimination in economic and social life, accountability being an essential part of the fulfilment of women’s right to equality and entailing affordable access to justice and adequate remedies; 112. Recognize that vulnerability and economic disadvantage for women are exacerbated by macroeconomic policies which increase inequalities and reduce social protection floors; 113. Recognize the disparate impact of austerity measures on women in response to economic crisis and adopt gender-sensitive strategies that avoid labour market exclusion, loss of social protection floors and reduction of social services. B. The girl child 114. Eliminate all discriminatory laws and practices which prevent girls from completing their education, including child marriage; 115. Ensure all girls’ de facto access to education, including mandatory, free primary education and access to secondary and tertiary education, free of discrimination; 116. Adopt good practices to combat non-attendance by girls, such as providing financial resources to parents to keep their girls in school, preventing violence against girls in schools, providing proper sanitary facilities and making provision for pregnant girls and school-age mothers; 21