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33.
The Committee calls on the State party to ensure just and favourable working conditions
to domestic workers, in particular with regard to daily and weekly rest and annual paid vacation,
terms of dismissal, social benefits and salary.
34.
The Committee recommends that the State party considers ratifying ILO
Conventions Nos. 2 (unemployment) and 29 (forced labour).
35.
The Committee urges the State party to ensure that the minimum wage is sufficient to
provide an adequate standard of living for the worker and his family.
36.
The Committee asks the State party to ensure that the excessive time period for collective
negotiation does not constitute an obstacle to the right to strike.
37.
The Committee urges the State party to combat violence against women by initiating a
campaign with a view to combating negative traditional practices and prejudices and their effects
and consequences. In this regard, the Committee also calls on the State party to ensure adequate
financial and human resources for the implementation of the National Plan for the Prevention,
Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women. The Committee requests the State
party to provide, in its second periodic report, detailed information and up-to-date statistics on
the phenomenon of violence against women in Bolivia, as well as results of the measures taken
to combat this serious problem.
38.
The Committee also urges the State party to ratify ILO Convention No. 182 (worst forms
of child labour), and to take effective measures to eradicate the phenomenon of criaditos.
39.
The Committee recommends that Bolivia explicitly take the Covenant into account when
implementing the policies, programmes and projects deriving from its Poverty Reduction
Strategy Paper, which forms part of the enhanced Highly Indebted Poor Countries Initiative. In
this regard, the State party is referred to the statement on poverty adopted by the Committee
on 4 May 2001.
40.
The Committee urges the State party to pursue land reform as a priority in its agenda, to
provide the economic and human resources needed for its implementation and to proceed
without delay with the title establishment procedures.
41.
The Committee recommends that the State party address the problems of the large
housing shortage, the high incidence of forced evictions and the lack of social housing for
low-income, vulnerable and marginalized groups. The Committee requests the State party, in its
second periodic report, to give detailed information on the number and nature of forced evictions
having taken place in Bolivia, in accordance with General Comment No. 7 of the Committee.
42.
The Committee urges the State party to address the problems and shortcomings facing
children and affecting their welfare, beginning with the varied types of child exploitation such as
the trafficking of children, their sexual exploitation and domestic maltreatment. The Committee
urges the State party to provide the necessary financial resources needed for children’s education
and the eradication of child malnutrition.