REPORTING TO THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY BODIES TRAINING GUIDE: Part I — Manual GUIDELINES ON TREATY-SPECIFIC DOCUMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED BY STATE PARTIES UNDER Articles 16 AND 17 OF THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (E/C.12/2008/2), available at: https://goo.gl/cYjMOj Example of two provisions: Article 6 15. Provide information on effective measures taken to reduce unemployment including on: (a) The impact of targeted employment programmes in place to achieve full and productive employment among persons and groups considered particularly disadvantaged, in particular women, young persons, older persons, persons with disabilities and ethnic minorities, in rural and deprived urban areas; and (b) The impact of measures to facilitate re-employment of workers, especially women and long-term unemployed workers, who are made redundant as a result of privatization, downsizing and economic restructuring of public and private enterprises. 16. Provide information on work in the informal economy in the State party, including its extent and the sectors with a large percentage of informal workers, and the measures taken to enable them to move out of the informal economy, as well as on measures taken to ensure access by informal workers, in particular older workers and women, to basic services and social protection. 17. Describe the legal safeguards in place to protect workers from unfair dismissal. 18. Indicate what technical and vocational training programmes are in place in the State party and their impact on empowering the workforce, especially disadvantaged and marginalized individuals, to enter or re-enter the labour market. Article 13 58. Indicate to what extent the form and substance of education in the State party are directed towards the aims and objectives identified in article 13, paragraph 1, and whether school curricula include education on economic, social and cultural rights. 59. Indicate how the obligation to provide primary education that is compulsory and available free for all is implemented in the State party, in particular: 38 (a) The level or grade until which education is compulsory and free for all; (b) Any direct costs such as school fees, as well as the measures taken to eliminate them; and (c) Any indirect costs (e.g., expenses for school books, uniforms, transport, special fees such as exam fees, contributions to district education boards, etc.) and the measures taken to alleviate the impact of such costs on children from poorer households.