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(c)
Conduct public awareness campaigns to raise awareness of the situation and
the rights of children with disabilities;
(d)
Allocate the necessary resources for programmes and facilities for all
children with disabilities, especially the ones living in rural areas, and strengthen
community-based programmes to enable them to stay at home with their families;
(e)
Support the parents of children with disabilities with counselling and, when
necessary, financial support;
(f)
In light of the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for
Persons with Disabilities (General Assembly resolution 48/96) and the Committee’s
recommendations adopted at its day of general discussion on “The rights of children with
disabilities” (CRC/C/69, paras. 310-339), further encourage their integration into the
regular educational system and inclusion into society, including by providing special
training to teachers and by making schools more accessible.
6. Education, leisure and cultural activities
Education
49.
The Committee, while acknowledging the State party’s efforts to include human rights in
school curricula, notes with concern that the availability of education in the Belarusian language
is becoming increasingly limited, from early childhood to secondary education. Further, it notes
that the number of children in secondary education is decreasing and that education standards,
particularly in the secondary system, vary greatly to the disadvantage of lower-income
neighbourhoods and rural areas.
50.
In light of articles 28 and 29 of the Convention, the State party should:
(a)
Ensure the availability of education in the Belarusian language and the
accessibility for Roma children and those belonging to other minorities to good quality
education;
(b)
Improve the quality of education in the whole country in order to achieve the
goals mentioned in article 29, paragraph 1, in line with the Committee’s general comment
No. 1 on the aims of education.
7. Special protection measures
Trafficking, sexual and other forms of exploitation
51.
The Committee is concerned about the information that Belarus is a country of origin and
transit for the trafficking of children, in particular girls, for the purpose of sexual and other forms
of exploitation. The Committee notes that there is a lack of information and knowledge about
this phenomenon and about problems such as sexual exploitation, drug abuse and the
involvement of children in the drug trade, and economic exploitation, often related to trafficking.