201. Every child with a physical or mental disability, has the right to special protection measures, which ensure their dignity, promote their self-esteem and active participation in the community. 202. Article 13/2 of the ACRWC stipulates that all Member States shall ensure the availability of resources to children with disabilities and their caregivers as well as appropriate assistance guaranteeing access to training, preparation for employment and opportunities for recreation, so that the child achieves the best possible social integration, individual, moral and spiritual development. 203. The unavailability of resources, should not be used as a justification for not carrying out actions to protect and develop children with disabilities. The entire State should prioritize the protection and provide care to children with disabilities. 204. The Government of Guinea-Bissau, has not yet established a legal instrument or the Policy on Persons with Disabilities to define the obligations of state institutions, civil society organizations and society in general towards them. The only legal provision concerning this matter is embodied in our constitution of the Republic in which there is a perfunctory reference to the disabled, but circumscribed to those who participated in the struggle for national liberation and suffered physical decline, Art. 5/2, (a). 205. A disabled child, enjoys the same rights as others, but in view of his or her diminished physical or mental condition, it deserves special protection, which must be defined in terms of an integrated policy with a view to provide a better life for those children. In this case, it is the responsibility of the State to create mechanisms and conditions for the education and socio-professional integration of disabled children, young people and social security schemes, to withstand the isolation and social marginalization to which many children are exposed. 206. Although Guinea-Bissau has signed the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a way of strengthening their action to advocate the rights of the disabled children, they are not translated into specific actions in public and macroeconomic policies. 207. In Guinea-Bissau, according to the study on persons with disabilities carried out by the National Institute for Study and Research (INEP), with the financial support of Plan International, carried out in March 2009, with a population of around 1,449.230 persons, about 13,590 persons with disabilities, corresponding to 0,94%, were registered. According to this study, the males present 53.9% and the female 46.1%. 208. In terms of typologies, partial visual impairment, is around 28.9% (32.3% for women and 26.1% for men); the physical disability of the lower limbs, amounts to 26.1% (male 27.9%, female 23.9%); and 7% are mentally ill people. 209. The FAPD "Federation of Associations of Persons with Disabilities" based in Bissau and other organizations working to promote the rights of persons with disabilities, are advocating with the government to approve specific policies and laws on the rights of persons with disabilities, to ensure a decent life. These policies 36