CEDAW/C/PHL/CO/7-8 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. 12/16 16-12874

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