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seekers, refugees, and displaced persons, that is also disaggregated by sex and national
or ethnic origin, to identify obstacles to accessing and continuing education and to
devise appropriate strategies;
(b)
Intensify its efforts to ensure that all children of Roma, Ashkali and
Egyptian origin have access to education, including by ensuring that they have access
to birth registration or identity documents, by providing free primary education,
textbooks and transportation, by raising awareness among parents of the value of
continued education for their children’s long-term socioeconomic prospects, and by
increasing the number of Roma teaching assistants and the use of the Roma language
in schools;
(c)
Ensure that all children with disabilities have access to quality and
appropriate education.
Cultural rights
26.
The Committee regrets the low proportion of the State budget that is allocated for
scientific development and the promotion and protection of cultural rights. It is also
concerned at the lack of an independent oversight mechanism for the Fund for Minorities to
oversee the implementation of activities and the allocation of funds (art. 15).
The Committee recommends that the State party consider increasing the budget
allocated for scientific development and the promotion and protection of cultural
rights. It also encourages the State party to establish an effective oversight mechanism
for the Fund for Minorities to oversee the implementation of activities and the
allocation of funds.
D.
Other recommendations
27.
The Committee encourages the State party to consider ratifying the
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and
Members of Their Families.
28.
The Committee recommends that all future national plans, programmes and
strategies addressing a wide range of economic, social and cultural rights provide for
built-in monitoring and assessment mechanisms with a view to ensuring that interim
results are available at any stage of their implementation in practice and that such
plans, programmes and strategies be adjusted according to the needs.
29.
The Committee requests the State party to disseminate the present concluding
observations widely among all levels of society, particularly among government
officials, members of Parliament, judicial authorities and civil society organizations,
and to inform the Committee, in its next periodic report, on all steps taken to
implement them. It also encourages the State party to engage non-governmental
organizations and other members of civil society in the process of discussion at the
national level prior to the submission of its next periodic report.
30.
The Committee requests the State party to submit its second periodic report,
prepared in accordance with the revised reporting guidelines adopted by the
Committee in 2008 (E/C.12/2008/2), by 30 November 2019.
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