E/C.12/KEN/CO/2-5 24. The Committee recommends that the State party take all the steps necessary to review the existing laws with a view to repealing gender discriminatory provisions, including those in customary law, especially in relation to polygamous marriages and to the rights of women to inheritance and ownership of land. It also recommends that the State party review the Matrimonial Property Act of 2013 and take all the measures necessary to strengthen its enforcement once reviewed, including raising awareness among women, local and traditional communities and their leaders, the judiciary and land administration officials and providing legal support to women to claim their rights. Representation of women at the decision-making level 25. While welcoming the two-thirds gender rule guaranteed in the Constitution and the progress made in the judiciary in this respect, the Committee is concerned that it has not been fully implemented owing to the lack of a legislative and policy framework and that the representation of women remains low at most decision-making levels, including in Parliament (art. 3). 26. The Committee recommends that the State party take all the measures necessary to fully implement the two-thirds gender rule in the public sector, in both elective and appointive bodies, and expeditiously adopt and implement the Duale Bill. Unemployment and underemployment 27. The Committee is concerned that the unemployment rate remains high, particularly among youth, women and persons with disabilities, and that the majority of work opportunities are in the unregulated informal economy. The Committee regrets that the measures taken to promote the employment of marginalized groups, including the 5 per cent employment quota for persons with disabilities in the public and private sector and the Access to Government Procurement Opportunities for youth, women and persons with disabilities, have not been effective (art. 6). 28. The Committee recommends that the State party intensify its efforts to upgrade the vocational skills of the workforce to meet the needs of the labour market and to create decent job opportunities, including through implementation of the National Employment Policy and Strategy of Kenya. It also recommends that the State party develop and implement special measures to promote the employment of youth, women and persons with disabilities, including through the creation of an effective system for enforcing the existing quota systems and the Access to Government Procurement Opportunities. Minimum wages 29. The Committee is concerned that minimum wages are not applied to all sectors of the economy and that the levels of minimum wages are not sufficient to ensure a decent living for workers and their families (art. 7). 30. The Committee recommends that the State party take concrete steps to apply minimum wages to all employees, unionized or non-unionized, and to establish a mechanism to index the minimum wage to the cost of living, and also to increase minimum wages to ensure an adequate standard of living for workers and their families. The Committee draws the attention of the State party to its general comment No. 23 (2016) on the right to just and favourable conditions of work. 5

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