E/C.12/FRA/CO/4 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: 4 GE.16-12027

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