A/HRC/19/64 Palestinian children and their families; seize the expansion of settlements, the apartheid separation wall, annexation of Jerusalem, the recovery of the Arab Syrian Golan and Southern Lebanon; and releasing Arab children imprisoned by the Israeli occupation authorities. • To develop Arab mechanisms capable of addressing the negative impact of armed conflict on children, including taking measures to monitor, document, study, followup and activate the role of Arab institutions working in related fields; to hold scientific meetings and training activities to strengthen the role of civil society in rehabilitating and re-integrating children, and taking action to establish an Arab relief mechanism to ensure that disaster, and crises- stricken children and their families receive the necessary assistance to resume their normal life; • To expedite national efforts exerted in the field of child health care to ensure child survival, to reduce infant and child mortality rates and maternal mortality rates; to address the problems of child malnutrition and to promote breast feeding; • To promote awareness-raising and extension programmes and services, as well as protection efforts related to the transmission of HIV/AIDS by different means, especially among adolescents; to provide care and treatment whenever required, in addition to designing and implementing preventive plans and strategies to protect them from the hazards of drug addiction; • To accelerate national efforts exerted for attaining the goals of ―Education for All‖, improving the quality of education, as well as its systems, institutions, methodologies and tools; to enhance the efficiency of human resources and to increase financial allocations, and emphasizing compliance with the principles of equal opportunities, gender equity and non-discrimination; and to exert efforts to allocate an adequate percentage of national budgets to basic education; to consider education an investment with real economic returns and to link its outputs to the requirements of the labour market and contemporary needs for skills; to reaffirm the goal of education in building a generation that is aware of its social role in tandem with its contribution to economic and developmental initiatives; • To take action to strengthen the Arab child's sense of belonging and support the foundations of Arab identity, while stressing the importance of giving the Arabic language its deserved place in the education system of Arab countries without neglecting the study of other living languages; • To adopt a comprehensive and integrated care and development approach for early childhood as a matter of high priority in Arab development policies by implementing a comprehensive Arab project for improving early childhood services, while giving special attention to marginalized sectors of society; • To take necessary measures to reduce the percentage of drop-outs and educational attrition and to limit repetition in basic and secondary education by revising and improving the quality of formal and informal education as well as improving assessment and evaluation methods; to offer incentives to poor and marginalized families; to improve and develop the school environment and link it to local communities to become more child-friendly, in addition to ensuring a safe environment that encourages creativity, innovation, thinking, freedom of opinion and expression and allows children to enjoy all their rights; • To strengthen protection programmes by developing strategies to combat all forms of violence against children, by implementing the practical recommendations of the Arab Comparative Report on the implementation of the recommendations of the study of the United Nations Secretary-General to end Violence Against Children and 38