A/HRC/21/39 82. States should: (a) Take multidimensional measures to tackle the relationship between ill health and poverty, recognizing the many and varied determinants of health and the agency and autonomy of persons living in poverty; (b) Enhance the accessibility and quality of preventive and curative health care for persons living in poverty, including sexual and reproductive health care and mental health care; (c) Ensure that persons living in poverty have access to safe and affordable medicines and that inability to pay does not prevent access to essential health care and medicine; (d) Establish health-care facilities within the safe physical reach of communities living in poverty, including in rural areas and slums, and ensure that such facilities have all resources necessary for their proper functioning; (e) Take special measures to target the main health conditions affecting persons living in poverty, including neglected diseases. This should include free immunization, educational programmes and training for health practitioners to identify and treat such illnesses; (f) Implement specific and well-resourced policies to tackle gender-based violence, including accessible preventive and treatment services that protect the dignity and privacy of persons living in poverty; (g) Provide tailor-made services for groups whose access to health services may raise particular challenges, such as language, geographical barriers, cultural barriers, age, discrimination or existing health status. Women living in poverty should have access to high-quality sexual and reproductive health services and information. K. Right to work and rights at work 83. In rural and urban areas alike, persons living in poverty experience unemployment, underemployment, unreliable casual labour, low wages and unsafe and degrading working conditions. Persons living in poverty tend to work outside the formal economy and without social security benefits, such as maternity leave, sick leave, pensions and disability benefits. They may spend most of their waking hours at the workplace, barely surviving on their earnings and facing exploitation including bonded or forced labour, arbitrary dismissal and abuse. Women are particularly at risk of abuse, as are groups affected by discrimination such as persons with disabilities and undocumented migrants. Women usually take on the bulk of unpaid care work in their households, making them more likely to engage in low paid and insecure employment, or preventing them from entering the labour market altogether. 84. States should: (a) Adopt rigorous labour regulations and ensure their enforcement through a labour inspectorate with adequate capacity and resources to ensure enjoyment of the right to decent working conditions; (b) Ensure that all workers are paid a wage sufficient to enable them and their family to have access to an adequate standard of living; (c) Ensure that legal standards regarding just and favourable conditions of work are extended to and respected in the informal economy, and collect disaggregated data assessing the dimensions of informal work; 19

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