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which it made in that connection in its preceding concluding observations
(E/C.12/FRA/CO/3).
Discrimination and disaggregated statistics
16.
The Committee wishes to underscore the value of the findings to be drawn from the
Mobility and Origins Survey. It finds it regrettable, however, that the State party does not
have the statistical tools needed to measure the incidence of all the various forms of indirect
discrimination on grounds of people’s origins (art. 2 (2)).
17.
The Committee urges the State party to develop suitable methodologies for
gathering information and compiling disaggregated statistics on visible ethnic
minorities, including persons of foreign extraction and Roma, based on the principle
of self-identification, that can be used by victims of indirect discrimination to
document the treatment to which they have been subjected. The Committee requests
the State party to include the overseas departments and regions and overseas
communities in its statistics. In addition, it recommends that the State party make use
of disaggregated statistics to monitor the impact that public policies have on those
groups. It wishes to draw the State party’s attention to the rights-based approach to
data collection developed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights.
Asylum seekers
18.
The Committee is deeply concerned about the substandard conditions existing in the
reception and accommodation facilities for asylum seekers and the administrative obstacles
which impede access to social and economic rights, thereby reducing the effectiveness of
the safeguards put in place as part of the reform of the asylum system (art. 2 (2)).
19.
The Committee calls upon the State party to remove administrative and other
obstacles that hinder asylum seekers from exercising their economic and social rights
by, in particular:
(a)
Fully informing asylum seekers of their rights in an independent,
thorough and impartial manner and in a language which they understand;
(b)
Streamlining and expediting the administrative procedures for gaining
access to social and economic rights;
(c)
Expanding the capacity of reception centres or equivalent permanent
facilities in order to meet the actual demand and making provision for temporary
emergency lodging arrangements on an exceptional basis in order to cover the
demand for accommodations in its entirety;
(d)
Ensuring satisfactory living standards and improved access to the
general health-care system, as well as to specialized facilities, including those that
provide treatment for such conditions as psychological disorders and trauma linked to
persons’ experiences when fleeing or when in exile.
Equal rights of men and women
20.
The Committee observes with concern that, although progress has been made,
women are still at a disadvantage in society and, in view of the gender-based wage gap,
particularly so in the labour market (art. 3).
21.
The Committee urges the State party to redouble its efforts to achieve the
priority objectives set at the second meeting of the Interministerial Committee for
Women’s Rights and Equality between Women and Men in 2014 and calls upon it to:
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