Right to education
23.
Calls upon all States:
(a)
To recognize the right to education on the basis of equal opportunity
and non-discrimination by making primary education available, free and compulsory
for all children, by ensuring that all children, particularly girls, children in need of
special protection, children with disabilities, indigenous children, children belonging
to minorities and children of different ethnic origins, internally displaced and refugee
children and children living in conflict-affected areas and countries and children
affected and living with HIV/AIDS have access to good quality education, as well as
making secondary education generally available and accessible for all, in particular by
the progressive introduction of free education, bearing in mind that special measures
to ensure equal access, including affirmative action, contribute to achieving equal
opportunity and combating exclusion;
(b)
To design and implement programmes to provide social services to and
support for pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular to enable them
to continue and complete their education;
(c)
To ensure that children, from an early age, benefit from education
programmes, materials and activities that develop respect for human rights and fully
reflect the values of peace, non-violence against oneself and others, tolerance and
gender equality;
(d)
To enable children, including adolescents, to exercise their right to
express their views freely, the views of the child being given due weight in
accordance with age and maturity of the child;
The girl child
24.
Calls upon all States to take all necessary measures, including legal
reforms where appropriate:
(a)
To ensure the full and equal enjoyment by girls of all human rights and
fundamental freedoms, to take effective actions against violations of those rights and
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