E/C.12/1/Add.14 page 5 26. The Committee is concerned about the great number of forced evictions of people in the Amazonian basin, resulting in the destruction of their habitat and way of life. E. Suggestions and recommendations 27. In the view of the Committee, the introduction and implementation of much-needed social justice measures, i.e. political, economic and social reforms, are needed in order to break the vicious circle of violence and counter-violence, and to win over the indigenous population, the peasants and other underprivileged sectors of Peruvian society. 28. The Committee also calls upon the Government to make a greater effort to translate the Covenant into appropriate indigenous languages and to give more publicity to its provisions. 29. The Committee recommends that the State party’s next periodic report contain specific information on the activities of the Defender of the People and those of the Court of Constitutional Guarantees in the field of human rights, especially with regard to the protection of economic, social and cultural rights. 30. The Committee urges the State party to take effective action to eliminate all forms of discrimination and marginalization that afflict indigenous populations in the enjoyment of their economic, social and cultural rights. 31. The Committee recommends that the Government of Peru take steps to guarantee equality between men and women in all fields. 32. The Committee recommends that the State party make the necessary efforts to ensure compliance with the legislation on minimum wage, safety and health in the workplace, equal pay for equal work for men and women and to ensure the legal recognition of young people from 16 to 25 years of age as workers. To that end, the Committee stresses that sufficient resources should be allocated to the labour inspection services to enable them to perform their task properly. It also recommends that the State party take steps to ensure that the private pension system is not promoted to the detriment of the State party's obligations towards the public pension system, in terms of safeguarding pensioners' acquired rights. 33. The Committee recommends that urgent steps be taken, in particular by raising the awareness of employers and State agents, with a view to guaranteeing fully the right to engage in trade union activities and the right to strike. 34. The Committee recommends that the State party, in cooperation with UNICEF and ILO, launch a programme to combat the exploitation of child labour and the abandonment and exploitation of street children. The Committee recommends that other steps be taken to prevent and combat the use of child labour, based on the full observance of international standards relating to the minimum age for the employment of children, as set forth in ILO Convention No. 138, which it would be appropriate for Peru to ratify.