(f) To ensure girls' enrolment in schools

Near schools men wait in their cars for young girls to approach them.

There is no difference between teaching staff for either boys' or girls' schools.

Girls constitute a majority in those schools that are linked to services, in textile schools, medical schools, economic and trade commerce schools.

Ms. Kpongnonhou (Benin) said that, in an effort to promote girls' education, a number of girls' boarding schools had been opened, church based schools for girls had been rehabilitated and enrolment fees had been waived in the rural areas.

In general education schools, there are only 63 girls for every 100 boys, whereas there were 104 girls for every 100 boys in 1990.

Of the total number of primary schools, about 67 are for boys and 33 for girls.

Technology related vocational training for marginalized girls schools and learning centres as community catalysts for poverty reduction

However new primary schools are called girls' schools even though boys will also be admitted to these.

Now the Taliban are blasting girls schools and flogging women.

Already in 1991, there were 49 girls in primary schools.

Just as schools were burned in Afghanistan from 2004 onwards, for the past year schools especially for girls have been burned there, leaving 80,000 children without facilities.

But the imam hatip schools have faced criticism for discouraging girls from doing that very thing.

There are at present 8045 such schools. 7685 of these are for girls in all provinces.

Of the 6,240 schools upgraded in Punjab and NWFP in 2002 2003, 3,787 or 60.76 are girls' schools, and 18 are mixed schools.

Providing separate sanitation facilities for girls and female teachers in schools has been used effectively to encourage girls' school attendance, especially in the adolescent years.

All schools are equally accessible for boys and girls, so girls can take advantage of the education on offer in the same way as boys.

In Kenya, boarding schools for Masai girls, who cannot easily attend schools because they are located far away and because of a lack of resources and efficient transport, have facilitated these girls' access to the education system.

Primary schools upgraded to elementary level especially for girls in far flung areas and under developed districts.

Special schools have been set up for women and girls who are unable to finish their studies.

(c) About recent attacks against women and girls, including rape and other forms of sexual violence, forced marriage, detention of women and girls for violating social codes and attacks on girls' schools

Table 10.03 shows that at the primary level, boys schools registered an increase from 2000 2001 to 2003 2004 of 4.1 while the figure for girls' primary schools was 8.2 and for mixed primary schools 9.4 .

The trainees get a stipend of Rs. 10 daily envisaged as opportunity cost for girls attending these schools.

In the school year 1998 1999, out of the total number of secondary school graduates in gymnasiums and art schools, 65 of them are girls, and in secondary teachers' schools 83 are girls.

Barriers to the education of women and girls for example, lack of sanitation in schools should be identified and removed.

The enrolment rates for girls in primary schools has been increasing from 46 per cent in 1992 to 48 in 2002.

Ms. Akşit (Turkey) said that all schools under the Ministry of Education had a dress code for both boys and girls.

Furthermore at least 50 of all development allocations are now being provided to girls' schools.

There are no separate schools for girls or for boys in Tajikistan, and study programmes are not analyzed from the standpoint of gender stereotypes.

The plight of girls in the higher levels of primary schools, as well as completion and retention rates of boys and girls, should be highlighted.

One of the reasons for the girls' failure to complete primary education is the distance of the schools from certain rural places.

In the country's 102 athletics schools, the number of girls involved in sports is as follows

Girls and boys are provided the same curriculum including equal participation in all sports in schools.

Generally girls do better than the boys in these schools in O and A level examinations.

To address the enormous gender gap in basic education in southern Sudan, UNICEF supported the establishment of 250 community girls' schools, giving 9,000 young girls a chance to attend school for the first time.

The Ministry of Education in the Netherlands subsidized the participation of girls in primary and secondary schools in information and communications technology competitions, provided advice and offered support in organizing technical courses for girls.

The Government faces challenges to the achievement of this goal, for example lack of school facilities, in particular girls' schools in rural areas.

The challenge is more formidable with regard to girls' secondary schools, which are very few and scattered.

She requested further information on the banning of the head scarf for girls, including the situation in private schools and institutions and higher education.

Armed factions opposed to the Government have also targeted girls' schools and carried out terrorist attacks such as bombings or burning down schools and campaigning against female education.

(d) The equal right of women and girls to education without discrimination, the reopening of schools and the admission of women and girls to all levels of education

(d) The equal right of women and girls to education without discrimination, the reopening of schools and the admission of women and girls to all levels of education

The Committee expresses its concern about the low rate of enrolment of girls in schools, preference for the education of boys and the high dropout rate of girls due to pregnancy and early and forced marriage.

An obvious solution is to build more schools in places where girls and boys must be educated separately.

In theory, about half of the education gap in these areas could be closed by building girls schools.