CEDAW/C/PHL/CO/7-8 44. With reference to its general recommendation No. 34, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Ensure that rural women have access to adequate food, nutrition, water and sanitation, taking into account international human rights standards on such rights; (b) Eliminate income discrimination against rural women as compared with rural men, and improve rural working conditions by setting living wages, with urgent attention paid to the informal sector; (c) Ensure the integration and mainstreaming of a gender perspective into all agricultural and rural development policies, strategies, plans and programmes, enabling rural women to act and be visible as stakeholders, decision makers and beneficiaries; (d) Disseminate the text of the general recommendation in local languages throughout municipalities with the aim of raising awareness about its recommendations, especially among local non-governmental organizations. Disadvantaged groups of women 45. The Committee is concerned: (a) That Muslim women, indigenous women, women with disabilities, women migrant workers working and returning from abroad, internally displaced persons and lesbian, bisexual and transgender women face a heightened risk of violence, exploitation and abuse, as well as discrimination in political and public life, marriage and family relations, employment, education, access to justice and health care; (b) That Muslim, indigenous and other women living in rural areas are subjected to forced evictions and relocations as a result of large development projects and extractive industries; (c) That the provisions of the draft Bangsamoro basic law may undermine the rights of indigenous peoples to ancestral lands and domains; (d) That there have been alleged cases of extrajudicial killings of, and gender-based violence against, women human rights defenders from indigenous communities. 46. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Take measures to ensure equal rights, opportunities and protection for women facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, taking into consideration the specific risks and particular needs of different groups and ensuring the full and meaningful participation of women representing such groups; (b) Ensure that the policies, projects and practices relating to development and land governance, including those that may entail relocation, are fully in line with relevant international standards, including the basic principles and guidelines on development-based evictions and displacement (see 16-12874 13/16

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