3. While most countries, including Iraq, have made progress with regard to girls &apos; primary education, there is a continuing need for efforts to be made to maintain and reinforce those gains by ensuring that the laws which provide that education should be both free and compulsory are applied and by dealing with such common problems as the lack of basic facilities in schools, parental lack of awareness of the importance of girls &apos; education and the problem of poverty.
Bien que la plupart des pays, dont l &apos; Iraq, aient progressé sur le plan de scolarisation des filles dans le cycle primaire, il n &apos; en demeure pas moins qu &apos; il faut continuer de préserver et consolider ces acquis, appliquer les législations sur l &apos; enseignement gratuit et obligatoire et résoudre des problèmes tels que l &apos; insuffisance des infrastructures scolaires et la faible importance accordée par les parents à l &apos; éducation de leurs filles.