• Does the regulatory and policy framework, particularly labour legislation
and national employment policies, take into account the work-related
human rights of minorities? What implementation and enforcement
mechanisms are in place?
• Do minorities enjoy the fundamental rights of freedom of association and
the right to collective bargaining, the elimination of forced labour and
child labour, as well as freedom from discrimination? Are these rights
guaranteed to minorities, in law and in practice, on an equal footing
with other workers?
• Do policies and programmes promoting decent work, including those
specifically focusing on minorities, take into consideration the specific
position of minorities, and in particular of women belonging to minorities,
in the labour market and in the workplace? Are appropriate mechanisms
in place to assess the impact of these policies and programmes?
• Do minorities have equal access to productive resources, including credit,
technology, vocational and skills training, information, and land? Is there
a gender disparity in access?
• Do minorities enjoy the right to adequate housing and how is this
enjoyment related to their situation with regard to access to land and
property?
• What kinds of formal and informal social protection measures are in
place to protect workers? What kind of strategy can be supported to
extend social protection coverage to workers belonging to minorities,
especially when they are concentrated in the informal economy?
• Is statistical information on the position of minorities in the formal and
informal economy being collected and regularly analysed?
• Are workers belonging to minorities represented in trade unions and
employers’ organizations, and do they participate in the country’s social
dialogue?
9.
Promotion and protection of the rights of children belonging to
minorities
• How is the general situation of children belonging to minorities in the
country? What information is available to assess the situation? Is there a
need to improve the information?
• If there is internal displacement, how is the situation of children belonging
to minorities being monitored?
• Is attention being paid to the needs of refugee children?
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