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6. Education, leisure and cultural activities
(arts. 28, 29 and 31 of the Convention)

Education, including vocational training and guidance

62. The Committee welcomes various legislative, administrative, policy and budgetary
measures to increase compulsory schooling from 6 to 9 years and to provide free education for
up to 12 years, as well as to expand access to education, improve educational facilities and
provide education in local or minority languages. In particular, the Committee welcomes the
Cabinet’s resolution of 5 July 2005, which provides non-registered children, including children
of non-registered migrants as well as stateless children with access to the regular education
system. Notwithstanding these positive steps, the Committee remains concerned that some
children, particularly those belonging to the most vulnerable groups and those living in remote
areas, still do not have equal access to quality education. The Committee is also concerned
that preschool facilities are limited and that dropout rates at primary and secondary levels remain
high.

63. The Committee urges the State party to fully implement the Cabinet resolution,
which provides non-registered children with access to the regular education system and to
allocate adequate resources for its implementation at the local level. In light of article 28
of the Convention, the Committee recommends that the State party allocate adequate
financial, human and technical resources in order to:

(a) Expand affordable preschool facilities in all areas of the country;

(b) Adopt effective measures to decrease the dropout rate in primary and
secondary school;

(c) Continue efforts to provide indigenous and minority children with equal
access to quality education, which respects their distinct cultural patterns and uses local
indigenous and minority languages;

(d) Ensure the supervision by the Ministry of Education of all schools within
the jurisdiction of the State party to ensure that children receive the same educational
curricula while respecting the rights of minorities to study their own language and religion,
and to ensure that every child receiving education is protected from extremist political or
religious ideology;

(e) Take all necessary measures to ensure equal access to quality education
to children in the southernmost provinces of the State party belonging to the most
vulnerable groups;

(f) Expand the availability and improve the quality of vocational training; and

(g) Cooperate with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) and UNICEF, among others, as well as non-governmental
organizations to improve the education sector.