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
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