CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE assign a significantly larger proportion of the budget allocated to the Department on the Condition of Women and the Family to training and sensitising the various state players to the concept of gender; ensure that professional groups involved in judicial and extra-judicial activities, judges, medical doctors, notaries, clerks of the court, bailiffs, those responsible for implementing sentences, etc. are systematically educated and trained in the human and legal rights of women; promote education on the human rights of women in the curricula of primary and secondary schools; take all steps aimed at enabling equal access for women to elected and non-elected positions, political and administrative positions, as well as political or associative organisations through the adoption of positive measures such as quotas, and the amendment of electoral legislation and legal texts; and adopt measures promoting equality of opportunity between men and women in employment. 2. Promote efforts to increase awareness of the human and legal rights of women adults and children. (Attention: civil society; the media) 3. Encourage the establishment of an environment favourable to women that achieves a balance between their professional and family lives. (Attention: private sector; civil society) Objective 8: Promotion and protection of the rights of children and the youth i. Summary of the CSAR 336. Basing its findings on general legal provisions (the Constitution, the Code of Civil Law, the Code of Criminal Law) or on provisions specific to certain sectors (education, health, communication, etc.), the CSAR notes that Algeria is implementing policies and measures to protect and promote children and the youth. 337. Health, healthcare and wellbeing. On the issue of health, reducing the rate of mother and infant mortality is a priority of the Algerian government. Several programmes relating to vaccination and the fight against diarrhoeal diseases, respiratory infections, morbidity and antenatal mortality, malnutrition, and acute rheumatoid arthritis have been developed. The infant mortality rate has been reduced to a fifth of the levels recorded at the end of the 1960s. As far as employment is concerned, legislative and regulatory measures have been implemented to prevent the employment of children younger than 16 years. 112

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