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policies, customs, traditions or religious considerations, financial barriers,
violence, including sexual violence in the school environment, the worst forms of child
labour, and harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation, gender stereotypes, child
early and forced marriage and early pregnancy;
(b)
To ensure that educational institutions are safe and free of violence and
abuse;
(c)
To address the rate of dropout from school among girls and help to ensure
that every girl completes a full course of high-quality primary and secondary education and
training and has equal access to all levels of education with the proper support and
reasonable accommodation of the individual’s requirements and without discrimination of
any kind;
(d)
To make a place available for every girl in a primary and secondary school
within a reasonable distance of her home;
(e)
To take steps so that every girl, regardless of her circumstances, can travel to
and from and attend school in an inclusive, accessible, safe and secure environment,
including by providing security services and adopting policies designated to eliminate all
forms of school violence and facilitating safe and secure school transportation services,
when necessary and as appropriate;
(f)
To provide equal access to education for girls from marginalized or excluded
groups, girls with disabilities, indigenous girls, girls who are members of ethnic, religious
or linguistic minorities and girls living in rural areas;
(g)
To provide adequate support for disadvantaged girls and their families to
ensure access to schools and to prevent girls from being removed from schools for
economic reasons;
(h)
To provide every primary and secondary school with professionally trained
and qualified teachers, including female teachers, capable of providing effective
individualized support in an environment that is child friendly and that maximizes
academic and social development consistent with the goal of full inclusion, and to develop
an overall non-discriminatory, inclusive, accessible and culturally sensitive, safe,
supportive and secure environment conducive to providing a quality education, including
human rights education, to every girl, to allow the fullest development of her abilities and
enable her to be a proactive actor in society;
(i)
To provide every primary and secondary school with full access to separate,
adequate and safe water and sanitation services, properly equipped with hygiene kits, that
contribute to the enrolment and retention of girls in schools, and to protect girls from being
physically threatened or assaulted while using sanitation facilities;
(j)
To ensure that every girl who completes primary and secondary education
has the basic skills to participate effectively in society, including financial literacy;
(k)
To eliminate gender-based stereotypes from all educational processes,
practices and teaching materials, and to raise awareness with regard to the importance of
the progressive realization of the equal enjoyment of the right to education by every girl;
(l)
To prioritize education in State budgets, to build education systems, and to
develop laws and policies founded on the principles of equality and the rights of the child;
(m) To support access to education for girls in emergency situations, migrant,
internally displaced and refugee girls and those in humanitarian crises, including in armedconflict and post-armed-conflict situations;
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