- Monitoring of the respect for the fundamental rights and taking prompt action in cases of violation of the fundamental rights. - Monitoring and enforcing minimum wage and equal wage requirements. - Ensuring that His Majesty’s Government enacts effective laws to guarantee rights of the workers engaged in informal economy and properly regulates and monitors the contractual arrangements and conditions of Nepalese migrant workers. - Pursuing His Majesty’s Government to define appropriate national standard/s for right to food, health, shelter, education and work. Pursuing adoption of/changes in policies and the legislation for culturally appropriate and affordable housing for rural and urban poor, and protection of tenancy rights. - Pressing for constitutional and/or legislative changes to ensure that the citizens are able to fully exercise those rights. Working with the stakeholders to declare the children, hospital and medical facilities and sites of cultural heritage as Peace Zones. - Monitoring the progress of His Majesty’s Government on its implementation of the universal and free quality primary education policy and free quality basic health care services. - Monitoring of implementation of ESCR components of the National Human Rights Action Plan of the His Majesty’s Government. STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 3 To advocate right to food, health, shelter, education and work as the fundamental rights of the people with special attention to improving the human rights situation in the most underdeveloped regions of Nepal. Key priorities will be: - - - - - Pursuing His Majesty’s Government to effectively implement its plan of action to address the food security problem in chronic food deficit areas. Conducting national level research on the impact of globalisation on household food security, on bonded labour, on the rights of farmers, workers (including health, education and status of women and children workers) and Nepali migrant workers from a human rights perspective. Raising awareness on economic, social and cultural rights and building the capacity of human rights NGOs and civil society to defend these rights. Expected Results of SO 1. Legislative and policy changes respecting the right to food, health, shelter, education and work. 2. Effective implementation of a plan of action to address food security in food scarce regions. 3. Concrete measures to address the employment problem of ex-bonded labourers. 4. Principle of minimum and equal wage is enforced in all 75 districts. 5. Housing policy for the poor. - Monitoring the condition of ex-Kamaiyas, Haliya, Gothala and similar practices; and pursuing His Majesty’s Government to take actions to address their rights. 6. Protection of migrant Nepali workers from fraud, unjust and exploitative labour conditions. 7. Universal and compulsory free quality primary education and protection of right to education of every child. 25