The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights implementation of program interventions in the education sector and serves as the secretariat of Education Watch. Education Watch 2003/4 has recommended the elimination of all charges for poor children as well as compensatory educational measures for them. Neither of these measures seems to have been placed on the government’s agenda as yet. 4. Recommendations The Government of Bangladesh has taken various measures in realizing the ESC rights in line with its human rights obligations. However, it is still clear that more could be done within available resources to improve the situation of the ESC rights within the country. In particular, this study recommends:  To endorse a revised National Housing Policy securing the rights of the poor to shelter.  To prevent eviction of slums without prior rehabilitation and resettlement of the slum dwellers in conformity with guidelines of the High Court.  That violations of the right to food should be documented and treated as human rights violations.  To undertake nationwide water-quality testing in a systematic, regular and coordinated way.  To ensure the implementation of the Proposed Water Act 2012.  To adopt an explicit policy to address special situations (like aila, floods or other forms of disaster) and the specific situation of special groups (dalits, women, slum dwellers etc).  To implement the policies and programs enumerated in various government documents to provide better health care facilities.  To create employment opportunities, income generation, and more production of food and services to reduce disparity between the rural and urban areas, the male and female gap, rich and poor and equity in access to food, health care facilities and other ancillary services.  To bring out explicit actions of various inter-sectoral cooperation on different development practices, as well as various intra-sectoral efforts in the field of health, family planning, drugs, pharmaceuticals, medical 68 education and research, agriculture, food, water supply, sanitation, drainage, housing, education, rural development, social welfare and women's development, in order to put human rights and the health agenda on a path of right to development.  That Bangladesh should undertake labour force surveys on a regular basis with the objective of measuring current levels of employment and unemployment and the corresponding changes. To review the National Labor Policy (Draft) 2010, especially the implementation part as a priority basis and finalize the draft policy within a short period. That the state should take effective measures to implement the National Labor Policy through enacting a Law on Employment (some provisions of the policy, for example the rights in the workplace, have already been in the Labor Law which could be revised if needed in line with the policy, but the provisions related to Right to Work requires legal recognition for enjoyment/ enforcement. Moreover, the word ‘labor’ should be changed as it means for economic survival solely). And the Law on Employment has to incorporate the provisions related to migrant workers.  That the state should ensure employment guarantee/unemployment benefit for at least 180 days for the people who have entered the job market/jobless.  That the state should recognize the Right to Food or the Right to be free from hunger as a right in the constitution and the state should acknowledge the three obligations- respect, protect and fulfill, with regard to the right to food.  That the state should take the initiative to establish a food bank which will ensure food supply when necessity arises.  To enact a National Food Rights Law to implement the National Food Policy 2006.  Existing legislation on land issues should also be reviewed, revised and harmonized in order to improve protection of the land rights of the poorest, minorities and women, including improving access to khas (Government-owned) land and challenging the illegal acquisition of land.  To Increase co-ordination between implementing agencies of the ‘Safety net Programme’ to avoid overlapping of the programme. Review the existing programmes, and institutional arrangements for more efficient distribution and use of limited resources. 69