A/HRC/35/11 (b) Adopt and periodically review, monitor and evaluate constitutional guarantees, legislative frameworks, policies and programmes to counter discrimination and ensure the enjoyment of the right to quality education by every girl, as well as respect the best interests of the child and her right to be heard; (c) Ensure adequate financial resources and direct and transparent gendersensitive budgeting for legislation, policies and programmes on girls’ education at all levels and in all situations, including through international cooperation that is coordinated, sustainable and monitored and effectively targeted to those girls most at risk of being left behind; (d) Ensure that the right to education is justiciable and that every girl is aware of her rights and has access to child-friendly, gender-sensitive and safe judicial and non-judicial remedies, and strengthen the monitoring by national human rights institutions of girls’ equal enjoyment of the right to education; (e) Take proactive, holistic and appropriate measures, including awarenessraising and dissemination of information, to promote girls’ education and dismantle harmful gender stereotypes in public and private life, including in education, in cooperation with girls and boys, civil society, community and religious leaders, and the media; (f) Periodically review and revise school curricula, textbooks, programmes and teaching methods to ensure the elimination of harmful gender stereotypes, inclusion of gender equality and human rights education, and ensure that comprehensive education on sexuality and reproduction is part of the mandatory school curriculum; (g) Ensure that girls enjoy the same quality education as boys, including the same range of courses and activities, including sports, even where schools are segregated by gender; (h) Ensure that teachers are qualified and adequately trained, including on human rights and gender equality, and that girls are encouraged to freely choose nontraditional fields of study, including through academic counselling; (i) Guarantee the enjoyment by every girl of a non-discriminatory, inclusive and quality educational environment that is gender-sensitive, transformative and responsive to their views and needs, including accessible education facilities with safe drinking water; separate, sheltered latrines for girls; and resources for menstrual hygiene, with attention to girls with disabilities; (j) Ensure the same admission criteria for girls and boys at all levels of education, in public and private educational institutions, eliminate direct and indirect costs to quality education and protect girls, in particular those most disadvantaged, against exclusion and interference by State actors and private entities; (k) Ensure that education is safe and physically accessible by every girl, including girls living in rural and remote areas and, in that context, provide safe, affordable, gender-sensitive and accessible means of transportation to and from school; (l) Take proactive measures to ensure that pregnant girls continue to attend and complete school, including through the availability of childcare facilities, breastfeeding rooms and counselling on the school premises, and encourage young mothers and girls who have dropped out to reintegrate and re-engage in the educational system; (m) Take adequate measures to eliminate all forms of violence against girls, including school-related gender-based violence and harmful practices, and effectively prevent, investigate, prosecute and punish the perpetrators of gender-based violence, including by teachers; (n) Protect girls and educational institutions from attacks on girls’ education, including in the context of violent extremism, and prevent the use of 15

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