E/C.12/NDL/CO/4-5 The Committee urges the State party to continue taking all necessary measures to raise awareness of social assistance entitlements both in the Netherlands and in the islands of the former Netherlands Antilles and ensure that all individuals and households in need of social assistance have effective access thereto. The Committee also encourages the State party to include these measures into national poverty action plans. 20. The Committee is concerned that the long period of affiliation required in order to receive the full public pension in the Netherlands is discriminatory to migrant workers working in the State party. The Committee is further concerned at the risk of poverty for pensioners, as the amount of the full pension is at the level of the minimum wage (arts. 9 and 11). The Committee calls on the State party to end discrimination against migrant workers with regard to pension rights. The Committee also calls on the State party to assess the impact of its enactments regarding old-age pension on the standard of living of pensioners, bearing in mind the increasing mobility of workers. The Committee draws the attention of the State party in this regard to its general comment No. 19 (2007) on social security. 21. The Committee is concerned, in spite of the measures taken, at the scale of domestic violence and the absence of a specific offence of domestic violence in the Netherlands. Furthermore, the Committee is concerned at the lack of information on the scale of domestic violence in Aruba and the islands of the former Netherlands Antilles (art. 10). The Committee calls on the State party to: (a) Enact a specific offence of domestic violence in the Netherlands; (b) Continue efforts undertaken to combat domestic violence, including by strengthening efforts to prosecute acts of domestic violence and continue raising awareness of domestic violence; (c) Act upon the findings of the survey on domestic violence in the Netherlands, including by addressing its root causes; (d) Ensure the effective enforcement of the new provisions on domestic violence enacted in Aruba, Curaçao and St. Maarten; (e) Conduct a study on the scale of domestic violence in Aruba, Curaçao and St. Maarten and provide information on the findings in the next periodic report of the State party; and (f) Include in its next periodic report, for all constituent countries of the State party, information on the number and nature of reported cases of domestic violence, on convictions, and sanctions imposed on perpetrators, as well as any assistance and rehabilitation measures provided to victims. 22. The Committee regrets that corporal punishment is not prohibited in Aruba (arts. 10 and 13). The Committee urges the State party to introduce a statutory prohibition of corporal punishment in the home and in all educational settings in Aruba, in line with article 10 of the Covenant and the Committee’s general comment No. 13 (1999) on the right to education, which refers to the fact that corporal punishment is inconsistent with the fundamental principle of dignity of the individual. 6