40 - Health: Women’s heavy workload, their inability to control their sexuality and their procreation, their lack of access to health services are all due to the lack of resources to enable them take care of costs on the one hand, and on the other, the insufficiency of health services at the grassroots level. - Education: The Central African educational system is characterised by a general lack of resources. The school enrollment rate is 45% for the whole country. For the entire educational system (primary, secondary…) 51% are boys and 49% girls. The State of Central Africa which is signatory to most of the international instruments for the protection and promotion of women including the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, pays special attention to Women’s Affairs. Thus, in the Constitution of the 27th December 2004, the same rights are accorded to both men and women. Other concepts which protect women’s interests are recognized by the CAR, notably: - The concept of women’s emancipation; BEÏJING and BEÏJING +5 ; The Gender Concept; All this proves that Government has the political will to promote the condition of women. The CAR, State Party to the Convention on the rights of Women in 1991, in August 1996 organised a seminar on the popularization of the Convention on the rights of Women as well as several workshops under the aegis of the Ministry of Social Affairs for Women and for studies, research and other promising activities related to Women’s Affairs. On the 16th December 2005, the Central African Government put in place a policy programme for the promotion of the Central African Woman which includes the priorities contained in the Convention on the Rights of Women, notably: - The promotion of equal rights; The participation of Women at all levels of decision making; The consolidation of the legal status of Women. The procedure of ratification of the Protocol of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women is in progress. V.2/ The Children Any individual aged less than 18 is considered as a child. In the CAR, the use of legal instruments and to a certain extent the existence of institutional structures facilitates the efforts to improve the conditions of children.