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United Nations Treaties
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Date of admission to UN: 9 December 1966.
- International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights - ICESCR
Acceded: 5 January 1973.
Reports submitted/due: 1/4
Reservation: " The Government of Barbados states that it reserves the right to postpone (c) The application of article 13 (2) (a) of the Covenant, in so far as it relates to primary education; since, while the Barbados Government fully accepts the principles embodied in the same articles and undertakes to take the necessary steps to apply them in their entirety, the problems of implementation are such that full application of the principles in question cannot be guaranteed at this stage."
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - ICCPR
Acceded: 5 January 1973.
Reports submitted/due: 2/5
No reservation related to the right to education.
Optional Protocol: Acceded: 5 January 1973.
- International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination - CERD
Acceded: 8 November 1972.
Reports submitted/due: 7/15
Reservation: Accession to the Convention does not imply the acceptance of obligations going beyond the constitutional limits.
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - CEDAW
Ratified: 16 October 1980.
Reports submitted/due: 4/5
No reservations
- Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC
Ratified: 9 October 1990.
Reports submitted/due: 1/2
No reservations
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ILO treaties
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ILO 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (1948) - date of ratification: 08.05.1967
ILO 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949) - date of ratification: 08.05.1967
ILO 111 Convention concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation (1958) - date of ratification: 14.10.1974
ILO 138 Minimum Age Convention (1973) - date of ratification: 04.01.2000.
ILO 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999) - date of ratification: 23.10.2000
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Inter-American System
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American Convention on Human Rights - ACHR ("Pact of San Jose")
Date of Ratification: 04.06.2000
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Constitutional Guarantees
of the right to education
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Date of adoption/date of entry into force - 30 November 1966
The Constitution includes human rights guarantees, but not the right to education.
But, see:
Chapter III - Protection of fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual
Art.19 - Protection of freedom of conscience
(1) Except with his own consent, no person shall be hindered in the enjoyment of his freedom of conscience, and (…) the said freedom includes (…) freedom, either alone or in community with others, and both in public and in private, to manifest and propagate his religion or belief in (…) teaching, (…).
(2) Every religious community shall be entitled, at its own expense, to establish and maintain places of education and to manage any place of education which it wholly maintains.
(3) No religious community shall be prevented from providing religious instruction for persons of that community in the course of any education provided by that community, whether or not that community is in receipt of any government subsidy, grant or other form of financial assistance designed to meet, in whole or in part, the cost of such course of education.
(4) Except with his own consent (…), no person attending any place of education shall be required to receive religious instruction (…) if that instruction (…) relates to a religion which is not his own.
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