CRC/C/15/Add.170 page 18 (h) attendance; Ensure that all children are able to gain full academic credit for their school (i) Implement these recommendations in the light of the Committee’s General Comment No. 1 on article 29 (1) of the Convention (aims of education). 8. Special protection measures Refugee/asylum-seeking children 68. Noting the progress made through the 1999 presidential decree expanding the rights of asylum-seekers and recent legislation allowing unaccompanied minors to apply for asylum, the Committee remains concerned at: (a) The large number of asylum applicants whose initial requests are rejected leading, inter alia, to delays and detention at the State party’s borders that may affect respect for the rights of the children involved; (b) The frequent occurrence of delays throughout the administrative and/or judicial processes with regard to asylum or refugee applications, including delays in family reunification, which affect children; (c) refugees; The absence of adequate public funding of legal aid for asylum-seekers and (d) The insufficient attention provided for the specific needs and situation of unaccompanied child refugees; (e) Reports of discrimination against asylum-seekers and refugees by, among others, police, employers and teachers which may affect the children involved; (f) The detention of asylum-seekers, refugees and illegal immigrants in poor conditions and for long periods without appearing before a court; (g) Limited access for asylum-seeking, refugee and illegal immigrant children to education and health services. 69. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Consider means to reduce delays in the consideration of asylum requests and in subsequent administrative and judicial proceedings, which affect children, and to avoid the detention of children; (b) Ensure that child asylum-seekers or refugees, and their families, have access to legal aid;