adopting public-awareness campaigns, human rights education and training programmes for judges and public officials and ensuring human rights education classes in schools. These programmes should aim at dismantling notions of social and/or religious inferiority in general and, in particular, in the domain of education. I would suggest inserting a paragraph on the subject of systemic discrimination and State obligations in this respect at the end of Part IV. of the Recommendations. 2. The Directly Applicable Nature of the Principle of Non-Discrimination in Education The directly applicable nature of the principle of non-discrimination should be underlined in the Draft Recommendations. As laid down in General Comment n° 13 on the right to education of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the prohibition of discrimination is subject neither to progressive realization nor to the availability of resources. It applies fully and immediately to all aspects of education and encompasses all internationally recognized grounds of discrimination. I would therefore recommend that the immediate nature of the obligation of States to ensure equal access to all levels of education without discrimination be mentioned in the Draft Recommendations in Part IV. -------------------------- 3. Editorial suggestions Regarding Part VI. of the Draft Recommendations The first sentence of Part VI., which deals with desegregation strategies (at present in brackets), should be retained, as segregation in education without any reasonable and objective justification is a serious problem in many States (for example, with regard to the Roma population). As the second sentence of Part VI. (also in brackets) is of a general nature, I would suggest inserting it before the first sentence. Regarding Part VII. of the Draft Recommendations