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29.
Further calls upon all States to take all necessary measures, including
sufficient budgetary allocations, to ensure inclusive, equitable and non-discriminatory
quality education and to promote learning opportunities for all children, and urges States to
pay special attention in that regard to children with disabilities and children in vulnerable
situations, such as indigenous children, members of minorities, refugees, migrants,
undocumented and stateless children, married or pregnant children and adolescents, and
adolescent mothers, children living in poverty, and any other marginalized or disadvantaged
child, as well as for children in armed conflict or emergency situations;
30.
Calls upon States to make primary education available, free and compulsory
for all children, ensuring that all children have access to an inclusive quality education from
an early age, and making secondary education generally available and accessible for all, in
particular by the progressive introduction of free education, as well as ensuring equal
access to early childhood education and care, and access on the basis of equal opportunity
and non-discrimination to post-secondary and tertiary education, and to include
comprehensive evidence-based education on human sexuality in a manner consistent with
their evolving capacities;
31.
Also calls upon States to recognize for every child the right to benefit from
social security, including social insurance, and to take the measures necessary to achieve
the full realization of this right in accordance with their national laws, including by taking
into account the resources and circumstances of the child and persons having responsibility
for his or her maintenance, as well as any other consideration relevant to an application for
benefits made by or on behalf of the child; and encourages States to, as part of their social
protection systems, establish or maintain and implement social protection floors, which
comprise basic social security guarantees as nationally defined and contribute to ensuring
minimum essential level of protection, to the realization of the economic, social and
cultural rights of children and to preventing or alleviating poverty, vulnerability and social
exclusion;
32.
Urges States, in accordance with national conditions and within their means,
to take appropriate measures to assist parents and others responsible for the child in
implementing the right of every child to a standard of living adequate for the child’s
physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social development and, in the event of need, to
provide material assistance and support programmes, particularly with regard to nutrition,
clothing and housing;
33.
Requests all States to promote innovative programmes that provide incentives
to low-income families with school-age children in order to increase the enrolment and
attendance of girls and boys, and to ensure that children are not obliged to work in a way
that interferes with their schooling or represents a risk to their health or well-being, and that
they are not taken into care because of poverty;
34.
Encourages States to develop or enhance early childhood programmes
targeted at assisting families facing especially difficult circumstances, including those
headed by single parents or children, those living in the most vulnerable and disadvantaged
situations and those living in extreme poverty or caring for children with disabilities;
35.
Also encourages States to take into account the Guidelines for the Alternative
Care of Children, and to adopt and enforce laws and to improve the implementation of
policies and programmes, budget allocation and human resources to support children,
particularly children living in disadvantaged and marginalized families, to ensure that they
are cared for effectively by their own families and communities, and to protect children
growing up without parents or caregivers; where alternative care is necessary, decisionmaking should be in the best interests of the child, in full consultation with the child as ageappropriate and with the child’s legal guardians;
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