facilitation of databanks on employment opportunities; and promotion of the rights and opportunities of those in the informal sector, subsistence agriculture and in small scale enterprise activities. f. Promote a social environment that is conducive to business creation, opportunities for self-employment, entrepreneurship, and the development of cooperatives. g. Ensure that educational systems prepare young people with the skills necessary to obtain initial employment. h. Ensure the right of everyone to equitable and satisfactory conditions of work, including safe and hygienic working conditions, fair remuneration, rest, leisure and reasonable limitation of working hours, periodic holidays with pay, public holidays with pay and parental leave. This protection should also be specifically extended to and developed for persons working in the informal sector, including those employed in domestic work, agriculture and/or in family enterprises. Vulnerable Groups, Equality and Non-discrimination 22 i. Ensure equality and non-discrimination in access to decent work, equal pay for work of equal value, and promotion without discrimination of any kind and ensuring conditions of work to members of vulnerable and disadvantaged groups that are not inferior to those enjoyed by other employees. j. Take special steps to ensure that women have equal opportunities to accept employment; this may entail special education and training programmes to equip women, who often have less access to education, to seek decent work of their own choice. k. Enact and enforce laws and introduce implementing measures, including means of redress and access to justice in cases of non-compliance, against workplace harassment. Harassment may amount to discrimination on account of race, colour, religion, national origin, age, sex/gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other status. While all types of harassment ought to be prohibited, sexual harassment requires particular attention. The experience of sexual harassment is an affront to a worker's dignity and prevents in particular women from making a contribution commensurate with their abilities. l. Take the necessary measures to recognise the economic value of care giving and other household work, for example, subsistence and market gardening, cooking, and caring for children and the elderly. In drawing up their national budgets, States should adopt systems that record the value of women’s unpaid contributions to society. m. Educate and promote men and male children to take an equal share of household labour to ensure that the girl-child is not unduly disadvantaged in the provision of household labour. n. Promote employment opportunities and career advancement for persons with disabilities in the labour market, as well as assistance in finding, maintaining

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