Child and that education is directed, inter alia, to the development of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and to the preparation of the child for responsible life in a free society, in a spirit of understanding, peace, tolerance, gender equality and friendship among peoples, ethnic, national and religious groups, and persons of indigenous origin; (d) To remove educational disparities and make education accessible to children living in poverty, children living in remote areas, children with special education needs and children requiring special protection, including migrant children, indigenous children and children belonging to minorities; (e) And educational institutions and the United Nations system, in particular the United Nations Children's Fund, the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to develop and implement gender-sensitive strategies to address the particular needs of the girl child in education, taking into consideration the interdependence of all human rights and the need to develop a comprehensive strategy to eliminate gender discrimination, and to provide gender-sensitive training for school administrators, parents and all members of the school community; XII 38. Decides: (a) To request the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission at its fifty-sixth session a report on the rights of the child, with information on the status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and on the problems addressed in the present resolution; (b) To continue its consideration of this question at its fifty-sixth session under the same agenda item. 60th meeting 28 April 1999 [Adopted without a vote. See chap. XIII.] page 23