CRC/C/NGA/CO/3-4 (f) To take effective measures to ensure equal access to secondary education, especially in rural areas and in the north-western and north-eastern regions of the State party,1 by promoting enrolment of girls; (g) To continue and strengthen its efforts to ensure accessible and available vocational training opportunities for all children, with a priority to children from vulnerable groups. 8. Special protection measures (arts. 22, 30, 38, 39, 40, 37 (b)-(d), and 32-36 of the Convention) Asylum-seekers and refugee children 73. The Committee notes that the State party hosts a number of refugees and asylumseekers from countries involved in or emerging from conflicts, the majority of which are children and women. Whilst the Committee notes that refugee children have the same entitlements as nationals to all rights enshrined in the CRA, and appreciates information that some refugee children are provided with educational scholarships and that schools have been renovated to facilitate integration of refugee children, the Committee is concerned about the lack of disaggregated data on refugee and asylum-seeking children in this respect. The Committee is also seriously concerned that refugee children are not able to benefit from the national child protection scheme. 74. The Committee urges the State party: (a) To include refugee children in the national child protection system, as a matter of priority: (b) To take all measures to guarantee the protection of refugee children in line with its obligations under international human rights and refugee law obligations, while taking into account the Committee’s general comment No. 6 (2005) on the treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin; (c) To strengthen the financial and human resources allocated to the National Commission for Refugees, with a view to ensure reliable statistics on the number, age, sex and nationality of refugee and asylum-seeing children; (d) To undertake the necessary legislative changes to ensure that the recruitment or use in hostilities of children constitutes a ground for the granting of refugee status and non-refoulement. Internally displaced children 75. The Committee notes information in the State party’s written replies on measures to enhance the situation of internally displaced persons (IDPs), including the amendment to the National Commission for Refugees (NCFR) Act aimed at giving wider legal powers to the NCFR with respect to its presidential mandate on internal displacement and the draft amendment bill on internally displaced persons. Nevertheless, the Committee remains concerned at the absence of a comprehensive legislative and policy framework on IDPs to effectively address the situation of IDP children, especially those displaced in connection to recent political and inter-communal unrest and violence, flooding and evictions, and ensure their long-term reintegration in society. The absence of a data collection system on internally displaced persons is furthermore of concern to the Committee. 1 See table 7.3 in the State party’s report. 19