CRC/C/ECU/CO/4 mainstream education. It should also ensure the availability of books through public and school libraries and appropriate Internet information and education; (b) Address disparities more effectively by allocating specific budget and long-term support targeting the most deprived children, namely indigenous children and girls in rural areas, paying attention to alternative informal education and ensuring vocational training leading both to employment and/or to further technical education; (c) Introduce human rights education in all levels of education aiming at the abandonment of discriminatory practices, xenophobia and violence and at the understanding of diversity, interculturality, the gender approach and citizenship; (d) Take measures to prevent corporal punishment and sexual abuse and harassment against children, especially girls, in schools and investigate and, as appropriate, prosecute promptly all such allegations; (e) Ensure for all schools a sufficient number of teachers who are welltrained, fully qualified and receive adequate remuneration and ongoing training; (f) Provide access to school for all children, irrespective of their legal status in the State party, paying special attention to the children of migrants and migrant unaccompanied children; (g) Reform the regulation of the Transport, Transit and Road Security Act to ensure that all school children have access to a preferential tariff for public transportation; and (h) Take into account the Committee’s general comment No. 1 (2001) on the aims of education. 8. Special protection measures (arts. 22; 30; 38; 39; 40; 37 (b)-(d); 32-36 of the Convention) Asylum-seeking and refugee children 66. While welcoming the new Constitutional recognition of the right to asylum and the rights of refugees, in line with international human rights instruments, the Committee is concerned at the situation of asylum-seeking and refugee children in the State party, inter alia, their inadequate access to education, despite legislation explicitly guaranteeing the access of refugee children to the national education system. It is also concerned that children born in the State party of asylum-seeking parents are not regularly being registered at birth and are therefore deprived of exercising their rights as children. 67. The Committee recommends that the State party adopt legislative or other measures to protect asylum-seeking and refugee children, in particular those who are unaccompanied or separated. In this respect it should take into account the Committee’s general comment No. 6 (2005) on the treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin. It further recommends ensuring that asylum-seeking and refugee children have an adequate standard of living, including water and food, as well as access to health-care services and schools without discrimination. Children in armed conflict 68. The Committee is concerned at reports that local communities near the Northern border are unduly affected in their daily lives by: violence by foreign non-State armed 14