[International obligations and access to remedies]

Belize back --» back to introduction --» United Nations Treaties Date of admission to UN: 25 September 1981. - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - ICCPR Acceded: 10 June 1996 Reports submitted/due: 1/1 No reservation related to the right to education. - International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination - CERD Ratified: 14 November 2001. Reports submitted/due: 0/0 No reservation related to the right to education. - Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC Ratified: 2 May 1990. Reports submitted/due: 1/2 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: 15.12.1983 ILO 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949) - date of ratification: 15.12.1983 ILO 111 Convention concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation (1958) - date of ratification: 22.06.1999 ILO 138 Minimum Age Convention (1973) - date of ratification: 06.03.2000. ILO 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999) - date of ratification: 06.03.2000. Constitutional Guarantees of the right to education Date of adoption/date of entry into force - 21 September 1981 The Constitution includes human rights guarantees, but not the right to education. But, see: Part II - Protection of fundamental rights and freedoms Art.11 - Protection of freedom of conscience Art.11 (1) Except with his own consent, no person shall be hindered in the enjoyment of his freedom of conscience, including (…) 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) Except with his own consent (…), a person attending any place of education (…) shall not be required to receive religious instruction (…) if that instruction (…) relates to a religion which is not his own. (3) Every recognized 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 maintains; and no such 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 a government subsidy, or other form of financial assistance designed to meet, in whole or in part, the cost of such course of education.