E/C.12/1/Add.80 page 5 36. The Committee requests the State party to provide in its next periodic report extensive gender disaggregated data in order to facilitate the analysis of trends, progress or worrying tendencies with regard to the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights. 37. The Committee recommends that the State party take legislative and other effective measures to eliminate discrimination, in accordance with article 2.2 of the Covenant. In particular, the Committee wishes to encourage the State to undertake proactive policies to promote the rights of individuals, especially with regard to their sexual orientation and HIV/AIDS status. 38. The Committee urges that the State party enact specific legislation and adopt concrete measures to ensure better living conditions for persons with disabilities. 39. The Committee recommends that the State party take effective action to reduce unemployment among young people by providing further vocational training opportunities. 40. The Committee urges the State party to take legislative and other measures to ensure equal pay for work of equal value for men and women. 41. The Committee recommends that the State party review the minimum wage level in order to enable workers to attain an adequate standard of living for themselves and their families. 42. The Committee urges the State party to review and harmonize legislation on the minimum working age and to implement measures to provide children with sufficient legal protection. In this regard, the Committee recommends that the State party ratify ILO Convention No. 138 concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment. 43. The Committee recommends that legislation preventing workers from striking be reviewed in the light of the State party’s international commitments and that the requirements for trade union membership be lowered, in order to facilitate more constructive and meaningful dialogue between workers and employers. The Committee also urges the State party to ensure that mechanisms for monitoring conditions at work are provided with sufficient human and financial resources to enable them to protect the rights of workers effectively. 44. The Committee urges the State party to take effective legislative and other measures in order to address child labour. In this regard, the Committee recommends that the State party ratify ILO Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour. 45. The Committee calls upon the State party to take all effective measures, including the enforcement of existing legislation and the extension of national awareness campaigns, to eliminate all forms of violence and discrimination against women. 46. The Committee requests the State party to provide in its next periodic report detailed information based on comparative data about the problem of abortion in Trinidad and Tobago and the measures, legislative or otherwise, including the review of its present legislation, it has undertaken to protect women from clandestine and unsafe abortion.