E/C.12/COL/CO/6 40. The Committee urges the State party to review its legislation on trade union rights and bring it into line with article 8 of the Covenant and with the ILO Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), and the ILO Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98). It also calls on the State party to strengthen, as a matter of urgency, existing mechanisms of protection for the members and leaders of trade unions whose lives and physical integrity are at risk. In addition, it urges the State party to conduct thorough investigations of all allegations of violence, harassment, threats and attempted killings targeting the leaders and members of trade unions, while also ensuring that the perpetrators are duly punished. Social security 41. While recognizing the efforts made by the State party to strengthen its social protection system, the Committee is concerned that a significant number of people are not covered by the social protection system, in particular workers in the informal economy, self-employed workers and workers in rural areas who are not paid the minimum wage (art. 9). 42. The Committee recommends that the State party continue making efforts to develop a social security system that guarantees coverage of universal social protection and provides appropriate benefits for all persons, especially those belonging to the most disadvantaged and marginalized groups, with a view to ensuring that they have a decent standard of living. The Committee also encourages the State party to redouble its efforts to set a social protection floor that includes basic social security guarantees. The Committee draws the State party’s attention to its general comment No. 19 (2008) on the right to social security and its statement of 2015 on social protection floors as an essential element of the right to social security and of the Sustainable Development Goals. Protection of children and adolescents 43. While it acknowledges the National Strategy for the Prevention and Eradication of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, the Committee is concerned that the Strategy does not effectively address the economic exploitation of children and adolescents in illegal mining activities. The Committee is also concerned at reports of shortcomings in the implementation of the measures taken to prevent the recruitment of children and adolescents by illegal armed groups and reintegrate those children and adolescents after they have demobilized, particularly in terms of access to education, health and psychosocial support (art. 10). 44. The Committee recommends that the State party take effective measures to prevent and counter the economic exploitation of children and adolescents by ensuring that child labour legislation is actively enforced, strengthening child labour inspection mechanisms and providing support to poor families to make sure that their children attend school. It also recommends that the State party intensify its efforts to effectively prevent children and adolescents from being used by illegal armed groups and take the necessary measures to ensure that all demobilized children are considered victims and have access to education, health and psychosocial support. In addition, the State party is urged to ensure that all cases of economic exploitation of children and the recruitment of children by illegal armed groups are thoroughly investigated and that those responsible are duly punished. Violence against women 45. The Committee is concerned that despite the measures taken, violence against women persists in all environments and that the rates of impunity remain high. The Committee is also concerned that many women victims of violence, including victims of domestic violence, do not have timely access either to health services and shelters or to effective remedies, including means of obtaining reparation and compensation (art. 10). GE.17-18290 7