CRC/C/THA/CO/2 page 6 23. The Committee recommends that the State party continue and strengthen its efforts to ensure that the provisions and the principles of the Convention are widely recognized and understood by adults and children alike. In this regard, it encourages the State party to continue to disseminate and raise awareness of the Convention among children and adults, particularly in remote areas. The Committee also invites the State party to continue to develop creative and child-friendly methods of promoting and teaching the Convention. 2. General principles (arts. 2, 3, 6 and 12 of the Convention) The right to non-discrimination 24. The Committee is concerned about the persistence of both direct and indirect discrimination against the child, contrary to article 2 of the Convention, particularly with respect to the girl child, children of indigenous, and religious or ethnic minority communities, children of refugees and asylum-seekers, children of migrant workers, street children, children with disabilities, children living in rural areas, and children living in poverty. The Committee is also concerned that there continues to be regional disparities, especially in the southernmost provinces, in access to social, health and educational services. 25. The Committee recommends that the State party, in accordance with article 2 of the Convention, take more effective measures to ensure that all children within its jurisdiction enjoy all the rights enshrined in the Convention on the basis of non-discrimination by effectively implementing existing laws which guarantee that principle. The Committee recommends that the State party prioritize social and health services and ensure equal opportunities to education for children belonging to the most vulnerable groups, including Muslim, immigrant and refugee children. The Committee further recommends that the State party carry out comprehensive public education campaigns to prevent and combat all forms of discrimination. 26. The Committee requests that specific information be included in the next periodic report on the measures and programmes relevant to the Convention undertaken by the State party to follow up on the Declaration and Programme of Action adopted at the 2001 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, also taking into account the Committee’s general comment No. 1 on the aims of education of 2001 (CRC/GC/2001/1). Right to life, survival and development 27. The Committee notes with concern that the violence and civil unrest in the southern provinces of the country have had severe consequences on children and their families, and endangered the right of the child to life, survival and development. The Committee notes with particular concern the lack of rehabilitation, counselling and other assistance programmes for child survivors and witnesses of violence in these provinces. The Committee is also concerned about the situation of former child soldiers in the country, some of whom may be in camps for refugees.