compulsory education rights of children and punish teachers who push children out of school because of extra charges. Gender disparity is still eminent in schools; showing girls school enrolment rate at 33% compared to the boys (98%) at the primary level. Gender based violence in schools including sexual harassment by teachers is a grave concern for girl child education. The State Party should increase efforts to improve on access of girls to education. This includes special initiatives that can motivate girls and their parents towards education. The State Party need also to finance teacher trainings and ensure provision of adequate training, including child rights, gender based violence and other emerging issues that teachers need to know how to deal with; ensure that all schools have effective child protection mechanisms including children’s access to safe reporting points without any fear of repercussion. The State should investigate thoroughly all complaints on violence in schools, and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice and punished accordingly. There is still high number of out of school children which accounts to 63%. Furthermore, there is lack of adequate facilities including public pre-schools for holistic early childhood development. The Committee urge the State Party to create motivating and child-friendly educational programs for children dropping school and for those who never attended schools so as to decrease the number of illiterate children. H. Special protection measures On Refugee, returnee and displaced children The Committee acknowledges the State Party for its commitment towards providing protection and necessary services for and facilitate reunification of refugee children including unaccompanied children under Article XII, section 5.1 and 5.2 of the Children’s Law. It also appreciates the establishment of inter-agency Child Protection Working Group (CPWG) to address the issues of refugee children and their families from Côte d’Ivoire. However, there is a concern on regularization of the status of refugee children, in particular unaccompanied and separated children seeking asylum. The Committee recommends for additional strategies that can provide more assistance to refugee children in full compliance with international refugee and human rights law with focus being given to unaccompanied and separated children seeking asylum in order to ensure that their statuses are regularized and they can enjoy equal rights and opportunities as the Liberian children 11