b) Ensure that girls equally enjoy the right to education by sensitizing communities about the benefits of sending girls to school, strengthening school feeding and “dry ration” programmes, working towards eliminating cultural practises that hinder the education of girls and undertaking other innovative interventions to encourage and foster girls education; c) Take necessary measures to ensure the accessibility of educational facilities to children with disabilities; d) Take measures to towards implementation of inclusive education provided for in the Persons with Disability Act; e) Ensure that teachers and other school personnel are adequately trained to provide educational services to children with disabilities; and f) Finance the interventions of the Education Sector Implementation Plan to Increase the primary school completion rate and decrease the primary school pupil: teacher ratio. H. Special Protection Measures Refugee children 27. The Committee notes with appreciation the adoption of the Refugees Protection Act, 2007. The Committee recommends that State Party to fully implement the Act and to provide basic services such as education and healthcare to refugee children. The Committee also recommends that the births of refugee children who are born in refugee camps be duly registered. Children in armed conflicts 28. The Committee recalls that the civil war of Sierra Leone (1991-2002) left a devastating psychosocial impact on children. The Committee appreciates the legislative and other measures taken by the State Party to protect children from the impacts of armed conflict, including the endorsement of the Paris Commitments to protect children from unlawful recruitment or use by armed forces or armed groups, and the Paris Principles and guidelines on children associated with armed forces or armed groups. The Committee further encourages the State Party to take the following measures. a) Amend the Child Rights Act in line with the international instruments to provide clarity on criminal procedure that should be followed as a result of unlawful recruitment or use of children and ensure that children who have been associated with armed groups are free from criminal responsibilities; b) Establish an organ to monitor the status of interventions to protect children from recruitment; and 12

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