A/HRC/15/41 76. Q. A revised version of the draft guiding principles should: • Recall the immediate and progressive obligations of States with regard to the right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food, and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger.43 • Recommend ensuring access to relevant livelihood opportunities for those living in extreme poverty and reaffirm that States should “proactively engage in activities intended to strengthen people’s access to and utilization of resources”.44 This can include specific legislative, administrative and policy measures to promote and ensure sustainable management of productive resources by those living in extreme poverty. • Recommend revising and repealing discriminatory laws and related administrative practices that impede the recognition of ownership of land and resources by groups or individuals living in extreme poverty, particularly women. • Recommend implementing effective land distribution and agrarian reform programmes in areas where land concentration threatens access to livelihoods for rural communities. • Recommend ensuring access to relevant financial resources, including bank loans, mortgages and other forms of credit, by those living in extreme poverty. • Recommend recognizing and compensating for the shortcomings of market mechanisms in ensuring access to key entitlements such as staple foodstuffs. Ensuring adequate distribution mechanisms that make such staples physically and economically accessible to persons living in extreme poverty, in a culturally acceptable way and without negatively impacting small farmers, indigenous peoples, forest dwellers, pastoralists or local subsistence fishermen. Right to safe drinking water and sanitation 77. Persons living in extreme poverty are disproportionally affected by limited access to safe drinking water45 with life-threatening consequence.46 Persons living in poverty, in particular women and children, bear the brunt of lacking access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation. Unsafe water and inadequate sanitation compromise dignity, seriously affect health status throughout the life cycle, and hold back poverty reduction, and economic growth.47 78. A revised version of the draft guiding principles should: • 43 44 45 46 47 20 Reaffirm State obligations with regard to ensuring access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, art. 11. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, general comment No. 12 (1999) on the right to adequate food, para. 15. A/HRC/6/3, page 14. UN Millennium Project 2005, Health, Dignity, and Development: What Will It Take? Task Force on Water and Sanitation. United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 2006. Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis (New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).