29. 30. Information on measures for maternity protection could include: (a) The principal laws, administrative regulations and collective agreements governing the various aspects of maternity protection, and relevant court decisions, if any; (b) Pre-natal and post-natal protection and assistance, including appropriate medical and health care and maternity and other benefits, irrespective of marital status; (c) Special protection and assistance accorded to working mothers, including paid leave or leave with social security benefits and guarantees against dismissal during a reasonable period before and after childbirth; (d) Specific measures, if any, in favour of working mothers who are self-employed or participating in a family enterprise, especially in agriculture or in small crafts and trades, including adequate guarantees against loss of income; (e) Specific measures designed to help mothers to maintain their children in the case of their husband’s death or absence; (f) Special measures devised to help the aged and the disabled to protect them in keeping with their moral and physical needs. Information on measures for the protection of children and young persons could include: (a) The principal laws, administrative regulations and other measures, including collective agreements and court decisions, if any, aimed at protecting and assisting all children and young persons, in order to give them opportunities and facilities for their healthy physical and psychological development without distinction or discrimination on account of birth, parentage, social origin or other conditions; (b) Special measures for the care and education of children separated from their mothers or deprived of a family; physically, mentally, or socially handicapped children; and delinquent minors; (c) Measures to protect children and young persons against economic, social and all other forms of exploitation, neglect or cruelty and from being subject to trafficking; (d) Provisions governing work by children and young persons, including minimum age for paid or unpaid employment, regulation of hours of work and rest, prohibition or restriction of night work and penalties imposed for violations of such provisions; (e) Measures taken to prevent the employment of children and young persons in any work which would be dangerous to them, harmful of their moral or health or likely to hamper their normal physical and psycho-social development, and penalties imposed for violations of such measures; (f) Statistical and other available data showing the number of children and young persons in the various age groups who are in fact working, and the sectors or type of work in which they are employed. The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living 31. 32. States are asked to provide information on general and specific measures taken to achieve an adequate standard of living and a continuous improvement of living conditions of people. Information on measures concerning the right to adequate food could include: (a) The principal laws, administrative regulations and collective agreements designed to promote the right of everyone to adequate food, and relevant court decisions, if any; (b) Measures taken to develop or reform existing agrarian systems, in order to achieve the most efficient development and utilisation of natural resources; (c) Measures taken to improve methods of production and the quantity and quality of food produced, and to increase the yield per unit of cultivated land and to improve methods of animal husbandry, including animal health, by making full use of technical and scientific knowledge, in particular: (i) The promotion of agricultural research, introduction and use of appropriate material, equipment and techniques; (ii) Measures to disseminate knowledge on the use of such material, equipment and techniques; (d) Measures taken to improve and disseminate knowledge regarding methods of food conservation, in particular to reduce crop and post-harvest losses and waste and to 8