E/C.12/FIN/CO/5 Page 4 their economic, social and cultural rights. The Committee also urges the State party to find an adequate solution to the question of the ownership and use of land in the Sámi Homeland in close consultation with all parties concerned, including the Sámi Parliament, and then to ratify ILO Convention No. 169 concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries as a matter of priority. 21. The Committee recommends that the State party continue its activities in the area of international cooperation and increase ODA to 0.7 per cent of its GDP, as recommended by the United Nations. The Committee also urges the State party to take into account the provisions of the Covenant in its bilateral project agreements with other countries. 22. The Committee urges the State party to continue strengthening its legal and institutional mechanisms aimed at combating discrimination, and requests the State party to include in its next periodic report detailed information on the outcomes of the initiatives undertaken to fight racism and xenophobia and to enhance tolerance and respect for foreigners and members of national, racial and ethnic minorities. The Committee also requests the State party to provide updated data in its next periodic report on the number of prosecutions and convictions for crimes motivated by ethnicity. 23. The Committee calls upon the State party to continue strengthening programmes to enhance equality between men and women in the workplace, with particular regard to efforts aimed at implementing the principle of equal pay for work of equal value and ensuring the equitable representation of women in managerial positions. The Committee requests the State party to include in its next periodic report detailed information on the measures taken to reduce wage differentials between men and women and to increase the number of women in high-ranking positions. 24. The Committee recommends the State party take all necessary measures to ensure that temporary employment contracts are not used to circumvent the effective enjoyment of the labour rights set out in articles 6, 7 and 8 of the Covenant, and that such contracts are concluded only in those cases provided for by the legislation in force, including the Employment Contracts Act and the State Civil Servants Act. 25. The Committee requests that the State party include in its next periodic report detailed information on the extent of the problem of domestic violence, and in particular violence against women, and on the measures taken to combat this phenomenon. In this connection, the Committee encourages the State party to consider enacting specific legislation to criminalise domestic violence. 26. The Committee calls upon the State party to strengthen its efforts to combat poverty and social exclusion and to develop a mechanism for measuring the poverty level and for monitoring it closely. In this respect, the Committee refers the State party to its statement on poverty and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (E/C.12/2001/10). The Committee requests that the State party provide in its next periodic report disaggregated and comparative data on the number of people living in poverty and on progress achieved in reducing the incidence and depth of poverty. 27. The Committee recommends that the State party intensify its efforts aimed at