Is children’s enjoyment of human rights, including access to education and health, freedom from exploitation and child labour ensured by national laws and in practice? Do effective enforcement mechanisms exist and do they take the situations and needs of minority children into account? Promotion of the right of minorities to maintain associations:     Is the right to form associations and trade union organizations ensured by national legislation and equally accessible to minority workers? Is there any particular obstacle in the country for minorities to fully enjoy these rights? Have there been any efforts by the existing minority civil society organizations to establish a network for exchange of information and coordination of actions? Access to decent work and to productive assets:  human rights of minorities? What are the implementation and enforcement mechanisms in place? Is there any attention being paid to the needs of refugee children? Do minorities have equal access to employment and income generating opportunities? What is the situation of minority women in this respect? Is there a tendency for minority women or men to be concentrated in certain occupations or sectors (i.e. domestic and care work, construction, manufacturing in export processing zone, etc)? If so, what are the working conditions that prevail in their workplaces? Does the existing regulatory and policy framework, particularly the labour legislation and national employment polices, take into account the work-related     Do minorities enjoy the fundamental principles and 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 minority women, 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? How is the distribution of productive and reproductive work organized within minority and non-minority households? Is there any strategy in place to address the unequal distribution of household responsibilities between women and men and better balance family and work responsibilities in the communities and in the society at large? What kind of formal and informal social protection measures are in place to protect workers? What kind of strategy can be supported to extend social protection Chapter 8: Situation Analysis Tools 115

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