R 21 The Committee recommends that the State party review its legislation to eliminate all disparities regarding minimum ages and intensify its efforts to enforce the relevant provisions. It strongly encourages the State Party to set a minimum age for compulsory education and develop sensitization programmes to curb the practice of early marriages. In the Ivorian legislation, the age of criminal and civil majority is respectively set at 18 and 21 years. However, in its article 3, the Constitution of 1 August 2000 recognised the right to vote for all individuals of 18 years. Child protection actors have initiated an advocacy campaign for the standardization of the age of majority to 18 years. Labour. The Order No. 2250 of 14 March 2005 of the Ministry of Employment and Public Service defines and prohibits night work and hazardous work until the age of 18. The list was revised by Order No. 009 / MEMEASS / CAB of 19/01/2012 concerning the determination of the list of hazardous work prohibited for children below 18 years. Marriage. Currently, the marital age for both sexes is not unified (boys 21, girls 18, 16 with parental consent). Although it is prohibited by the marriage law, which requires the personal consent of each spouse, the extent of the practice of early marriage and / or forced marriage remains a concern, although no survey or study has been conducted to confirm the reality of the phenomenon through statistical data. The fight against early marriages fit into the wider context of the fight against violence and harmful social and traditional practices, which is conducted by the Ministry in charge of the child through the Department of Gender Equality and Promotion (DMPD) and CNLVFFE, especially with the support of technical and financial partners. Mass and proximity awareness sessions are organised throughout the national territory, through the GBV platforms actions, Child Protection Committees and national NGOs. Only for the year 2010, according to UNICEF data, 6429 people of 90 communities were informed and sensitized on gender based violence (GBV). From 2010 to 2014, the CNLVFFE sensitized 8889 people as shown in the table below: Criminal liability. According to Article 116 of the Ivorian Penal Code, only children under 10 years are totally exempt from criminal liability. Minors aged 10 to 13 years can not be the subject to criminal convictions but can be subjected to protection, support, supervision and education measures that are provided for in Article 783 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPP). In case the minor of 13 years is prosecuted for a crime, he could be placed temporarily in a detention centre through a juvenile judge reasoned order. However, this is an exceptional measure that is rarely adopted by juvenile judges. Compulsory education. Although the Constitution provides in Article 7, "equal access (...) to education" for all citizens, no minimum age has been set for compulsory education. However, education is free in Ivory Coast for all primary schools from first to sixth grade (CP1 to CM2). 3.1 Non-discrimination (art. 2) R 23. The Committee recommends that the State party make concerted efforts at all levels to fight against discrimination, particularly discrimination based on sex, disability, religion and national, ethnic or social origin through a review and reorientation of policies, including increased budgetary allocations for programmes targeting the most vulnerable groups. The Committee encourages the State party to ensure effective law enforcement, undertake studies and launch comprehensive public information campaigns to prevent and combat all forms of discrimination, where appropriate within the framework of international cooperation. RAPPORT INITIAL SUR LA MISE EN OEUVRE DE LA CHARTE AFRICAINE DES DROITS ET DU BIEN ÊTRE DE L'ENFANT 26