D. The State party should ensure that all children of nomadic communities have access to primary education, including through the establishment of mobile schools Article 19 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran contains guarantee of equality for all the people of the Islamic Republic of Iran, regardless of ethnic group or tribe, and states that “colour, race, language, and the like, do not bestow any privilege”.49 Additionally, Article 30 provides that the Government shall make available and free of charge educational facilities for all up to the close of the secondary stage.50 According to the last census of the Statistical Center of Iran estimating the size of the nomadic population in the country in 2008, there was 212,660 nomadic families in Iran.51 The Center also estimated that among them, 662,736 individuals were literate.52 There is no more recent and readily available official census of nomadic populations in the Islamic Republic of Iran. However, in its National Report to the Universal Periodic Review in 2019, the Government stated it had identified 17,167 “deprived-of-study students” in nomadic areas.53 The establishment of nomadic or mobile schools is considered in the Iranian educational system and reportedly 188,000 students attend such schools. There are reportedly 5,429 primary schools in the country open to and/or designed for nomadic communities, which includes schools in buildings and mobile schools either in tents, grass huts and containers.54 However the number of such mobile infrastructures is reportedly limited and often lack facilities such as sanitation and electricity or access to internet. The number of teachers for such education is also reportedly low.55 In its National Report to the Universal Periodic Review in 2019, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran indicated that “ensuring access to appropriate education in all regions of the country, regardless of race and gender, with emphasis on the education of girls and vulnerable groups in less-developed, rural and nomadic regions, is among the most important objectives of the country”.56 The Government also mentioned measures to ensure that children who dropped-out return to school, including children in nomadic areas. 57 The lack of readily available, recent and official disaggregated data with regards to the nomadic population of the Islamic Republic of Iran hinders possible assessment as to whether the said measures have been successful. The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has implemented a number of measures in order to improve access to education for children without birth certificates, refugee children, 49 Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, English Translation, https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wpcontent/uploads/constitution-english-1368.pdf 50 Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, English Translation, https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wpcontent/uploads/constitution-english-1368.pdf 51 Iran Open Data, https://iranopendata.org/en/dataset/number-nomadic-families-province-1366-13771387/resource/64bfdb56-9946-4b2f-9186-5717e8f3edbe 52 Iran Open Data, https://iranopendata.org/en/dataset/the-literate-population-nomads-gender-1366-13771387/resource/928f4262-b860-4d0c-a262-16e9840f85e6 53 National Report, UPR 2019, Islamic Republic of Iran, https://undocs.org/A/HRC/WG.6/34/IRN/1 54 See https://www.mehrnews.com/xMFFw and https://www.mehrnews.com/xN64x 55 See https://www.mehrnews.com/xMFFw and https://www.mehrnews.com/xN64x and www.mehrnews.com/xRH4z 56 National Report, UPR 2019, Islamic Republic of Iran, https://undocs.org/A/HRC/WG.6/34/IRN/1 57 National Report, UPR 2019, Islamic Republic of Iran, https://undocs.org/A/HRC/WG.6/34/IRN/1 6