inaccessible) and children risk growing up completely undocumented and therefore at risk of statelessness. 24. Thus, the Committee recommends the State Party to speed up the process of modernizing the civil registration system and allocate sufficient funds for strengthening birth registration initiatives, with a particular focus in rural settings. The Committee would also like to note that registration facilities, especially in rural and remote areas, need to have adequate capacity to meet needs. They need to be decentralized and accessible to communities. The State Party should ensure that children without birth certificates have full access to education, health, and other social services. The Committee also recommends the State Party to promote non-punitive mechanisms for late registration, including the possibility of removing fees and penalties attached to birth registration. Moreover, the State Party should ensure that adequate training is provided to staff responsible for various aspects of the civil registration and vital statistics systems. 25. The Committee would also like to recommend the Government of Senegal to produce a situation analysis on mapping which group of children are not registered and why they are not registered, and 26. Further, the Committee recommends the State Party to take into account General Comment No.2 on Article 6 of the Charter for the implementation and full realization of children’s right to name, nationality and birth registration. Freedom of expression, access to appropriate information, freedom of thought, conscience and religion 27. The Committee recommends the State Party to provide the necessary information, including information relating to children’s rights under the Charter, to children in all areas in their own language using all feasible mediums of communication. E. Education, leisure and cultural activities 28. The committee notes that the State Party guarantees access to education for all children and education is compulsory and free up to the age of 16. The Committee welcomes the Government of Senegal’s commitment to expand provision of primary and secondary education to more young people, including by allocating over 20 percent of its national budget to education, and encourages the Government to strengthen and continue improving access and quality of education to all children. 29. The committee is, however, concerned about; 9