E/C.12/CRI/CO/4 page 5 35. The Committee urges the State party to take all appropriate measures to ensure that the levels of poverty, illiteracy and unemployment of indigenous communities and Afro-descendants be reduced and that the indigenous communities have proper access to water, housing, health and education. 36. The State party should take positive measures to promote the increased representation of minorities at high-level positions in the public service. 37. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen its efforts to promote effectively greater participation of women in the labour market and to ensure equal working conditions, including equal pay for work of equal value. 38. The Committee recommends that the State party take effective measures to improve the situation of domestic workers, in accordance with the provisions of article 7 of the Covenant. 39. The Committee urges the State party to intensify its efforts to reduce unemployment among marginalized and disadvantaged groups and individuals through specifically targeted measures, including by ensuring the strict application of anti-discrimination legislation by the judiciary, local governments and labour offices; introducing and effectively enforcing legal provisions requiring an ethnically balanced workforce in the public and private sectors; and enhancing professional training and sustainable employment opportunities in the remote areas where the indigenous population resides. 40. The Committee invites the State party to consider ratifying the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 41. The Committee urges the State party to expedite the adoption process of currently proposed reforms of article 60 of the Constitution and to ensure that the right of everyone to form and join trade unions and to take part in trade union activities is respected, in conformity with article 8, paragraph 1 (a), of the Covenant. 42. The Committee calls upon the State party to ensure that social security assistance is provided to all workers, in particular to persons belonging to disadvantaged and marginalized groups. The Committee also encourages the State party to ratify Conventions No. 103 concerning Maternity Protection (Revised, 1952) and No. 118 concerning Equality of Treatment in Social Security, 1962, of the International Labour Organization. 43. The Committee recommends that the State party undertake effective measures to implement existing legislation on domestic violence; that the police, other law enforcement officials and judges be given training to this end; and that information be provided in the next periodic report on the number and outcome of court cases related to domestic violence. 44. The Committee encourages the State party to expedite the adoption of currently existing proposals to amend article 143 of the Family Code and the law providing for an explicit prohibition of all corporal punishment that is currently under consideration.