Southern African Development Community (ii) (f) (g) for employers, the right to collective bargaining and remedies consistent with national laws; organisational rights for representatives of unions are adequately protected; freedom of association and collective bargaining rights apply to all areas of economic activities including export processing zones and other economic zones. ARTICLE 7 EQUAL TREATMENT 1. State Parties shall adopt laws and policies to ensure that every person is equal and accorded equal treatment and equal protection before the law. 2. State Parties undertake to promote equality of opportunity in employment and labour market policies and legislation and social security and to eliminate all forms of direct or indirect discrimination on grounds such as sex, gender, colour, nationality, race, religion, language, ethnic or social origin, political opinion, pregnancy, marital status, disability, age, or HIV and AIDS. 3. State Parties shall ensure compliance with ILO Conventions on Discrimination and Equality (Nos. 100 and 111), the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, the SADC Protocol and the Declaration on Gender and Development and other relevant international and regional instruments so as to ensure gender equity and equality, equal treatment and opportunities for men and women as regards access to employment, remuneration for work of equal value, working conditions, social protection, education, vocational training and career development; and where necessary provide specific employment and social security needs of women which may arise as a result of reproductive roles. 4. Legislative, administrative and other appropriate measures shall be adopted to ensure: (a) (b) equal pay for work of equal value, and equal remuneration for jobs of equal value for women and men; the eradication of occupational segregation and all forms of employment discrimination; (c) adoption of reasonable measures to enable men and women to reconcile their occupational and family obligations; and Protocol on Employment and Labour -11-