[International obligations and access to remedies]
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United Nations Treaties Date of admission to UN: 24 October 1945.
- International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights - ICESCR
Ratified: 8 August 1986.
Reports submitted/due: 2/3
No reservations

- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - ICCPR
Ratified: 8 August 1986.
Reports submitted/due: 3/4
No reservations
Optional Protocol: Acceded: 8 August 1986.

- International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination - CERD
Ratified: 2 October 1968.
Reports submitted/due: 15/17
No reservations.

- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - CEDAW
Ratified: 15 July 1985.
Reports submitted/due: 4/5
Reservations and Declarations: Article 29(1).

- Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC
Ratified: 4 December 1990.
Reports submitted/due: 2/2
No reservation related to the right to education.
ILO treaties ILO 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (1948) - date of ratification: 18.01.1960
ILO 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949) - date of ratification: 24.09.1996
ILO 111 Convention concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation (1958) - date of ratification: 18.06.1968
ILO 138 Minimum Age Convention (1973) - date of ratification: 11.11.1996.
ILO 169 Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (1989) - date of ratification: 03.07.2000
ILO 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999) - date of ratification: 05.02.2001
Inter-American System American Convention on Human Rights - ACHR ("Pact of San Jose")
Date of Ratification: 05.09.1984
Constitutional Guarantees
of the right to education
Date of adoption/date of entry into force - 22 August 1994

Relevant Provisions
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First Part
Chapter I - Declarations, rights and guarantees
Art.14
All inhabitants of the Nation enjoy the following rights, (...), namely: (...) of teaching and learning.
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Second Part - Authorities of the Nation
Title I, Section I
Chapter IV - The powers of Congress
Art.75
Art.75
The Congress shall have the power:
17. To recognize the ethnic and cultural pre-existence of indigenous Argentine peoples. To guarantee respect for their identity and their right to bilingual and intercultural education (...).
19. (...) To pass laws on the organization of and basis for education (...), which guarantee the principles of free and equitable public education by the State and the autonomy and self-sufficiency of the National Universities.