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A/HRC/20/25/Add.1 84. With regard to strengthening the social protection system: (a) Increase coordination among existing social protection initiatives, ensuring national coverage, transparency, accountability and access without discrimination; (b) Ensure that payments are distributed regularly and that the existing programmes are expanded to reach all eligible beneficiaries, particularly those in rural areas; (c) Ensure that targeting methods do not result in discrimination and exclusion or perpetuate existing asymmetric power structures; (d) Review the imposition of conditionalities in the Bolsa da Mãe programme, expand the programme and establish a complaint mechanism; (e) Ensure, in the meantime, that social protection programmes reach the most vulnerable as a matter of priority; (f) Develop employment schemes to address the structural barriers that prevent specific groups (youth, women, persons with disabilities and others) from actively participating in the workforce. 23

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Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

Date: May 24, 2012

Summary: The Special Rapporteur undertook a mission to Timor-Leste from 13 to 18 November 2011, and emphasized that the country’s human rights obligations apply even during times of development and post-crisis rebuilding. In the context of a State’s obligation to devote the maximum available resources to the progressive realization of economic, social and cultural rights, the Special Rapporteur is concerned about the prioritization of public expenditures in Timor-Leste. She notes that even as the State budget has increased in recent years, there has been a gradual decline in the percentage allocated to social services, including health and education services, as well as to agriculture. The Special Rapporteur calls on the Government to reassess the allocation of its resources, to ensure that social services are sufficiently financed to facilitate the progressive realization of ESCR. The Special Rapporteur also calls on the Government of Timor-Leste to assess whether its corporate taxation rates, among the lowest in the world, should be revised in order to expand the resources available to address poverty and reduce inequality.

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