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mechanism to monitor its implementation has been established, and there have been
substantial cuts in the budget for this implementation;
(d) That the revocation of Executive Orders Nos. 003 and 030 of Manila
City has been implied by the adoption of the Responsible Parenthood and
Reproductive Health Act but has not been expressly declared, resulting in confusion
among health professionals and a persistent lack of access to services and
information about sexual and reproductive health and rights for women and girls in
Manila City;
(e) That Sorsogon City adopted Executive Order No. 3 in February 2015,
which resulted in the withdrawal of modern contraceptives from city and
community health facilities.
40. The Committee recommends that the State party fully implement, without
delay, all the recommendations issued by the Committee in 2015 in the report
on its inquiry (CEDAW/C/OP.8/PHL/1, paras. 49-52), including with regard to
access to modern contraceptives and the legalization of abortion under certain
circumstances.
Economic empowerment of women
41. The Committee welcomes the initiatives taken by the State party to develop a
social protection floor, but is concerned that women living in poverty in rural and
urban areas, in particular those working in the informal sector, lack access to social
security.
42. With reference to its general recommendations No. 16 (1991) on unpaid
women workers in rural and urban family enterprises and No. 34 (2016) on the
rights of rural women, the Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Ensure that women engaged in unpaid work or in the informal
sector, both in rural and urban areas, have access to non-contributory social
protection and that those employed in the formal sector have access to
contributory social security benefits in their own right, irrespective of their
marital status;
(b) Adopt gender-responsive social protection floors to ensure that all
rural women have access to essential health care, childcare facilities and
income security, in line with article 14 (2) (b), (c) and (h) of the Convention and
the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202), of ILO.
Rural women
43. The Committee is concerned that women living in rural areas are
disproportionately affected by poverty and by food and water insecurity as a result
of the discrimination that they face in relation to income, to access to land tenure, to
extension services and training, and to participation in decision -making. In
particular, the Committee is concerned that women benefit significantly less from
the outcome of agrarian reforms, depriving them of access to productive resources.
Furthermore, it is concerned that land appropriation and the resulting displacement
due to extractive industries, development projects and disasters continue to affect
rural women disproportionately.
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