CRC/C/ECU/CO/4 guarantee of the rights to take freely, responsibly and well informed decisions on health and reproductive life (art. 66, No. 10). The Committee is particularly concerned with unwanted pregnancies as a result of rape, as well as the prohibition of some types of emergency contraception, in some cases leading to unsafe abortions and suicides. 61. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen its measures to promote access to reproductive health services for all adolescents in all parts of the country, including sex and reproductive health education in schools as well as youthsensitive and confidential counselling and health-care services, including information on and access to contraceptives. It further recommends that the State party make all emergency contraception available to adolescents. In this regard, the State party’s attention is drawn to the Committee’s general comment No. 4 (2003) on adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Committee shares the recommendation of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the need for the State to support in-depth research on the question of abortions in dangerous circumstances and its effects on women (and girls) and on maternal health, enabling the appropriate formulation of laws and norms. HIV/AIDS 62. While noting that the State party introduced an HIV prevention policy in 2006 regarding adolescents and a protection policy for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS, it is concerned at the lack of implementation of these policies through the National System for Protection of Children and Adolescents. 63. The Committee recommends that high priority be given to actual implementation of the prevention and protection policies on HIV/AIDS. 7. Education, leisure and cultural activities (arts. 28; 29; and 31 of the Convention) Education, including vocational training and guidance 64. The Committee welcomes increased public spending on education in recent years, as well as the elimination in 2006 of voluntary contributions to schools, and the introduction of free textbooks. It also looks forward to further increase in resources as established in the 2008 Constitution. The Committee also welcomes the 10-year Education Plan that includes early education and aims at full enrolment of all children in basic education and 75 per cent at the secondary level, as well as the 2006 National Action Plan for the Prevention and Eradication of Sexual Offences in the Educational System. It is, however, concerned at the still high dropout rates, especially of indigenous girls, and at the high rate of sexual abuse and harassment against girls in schools and corporal punishment as a form of “discipline” in schools. It also notes with concern that the low completion rate in secondary education, especially among indigenous children and pregnant girls, points to the inadequate quality of education. The Committee is further concerned that children of irregular migrant workers do not have access to the educational system. 65. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Continue improving the quality of education and take all measures to ensure that children complete primary and secondary school by addressing the reasons behind non-completion of schooling. In doing so, it should ensure that the millennium educational units are the centre of a network aiming at reforming all schools at district level rather than diverting resources from the application of 13