[International obligations and access to remedies]

Botswana back --» back to introduction --» United Nations Treaties Date of admission to UN: 17 October 1966 - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - ICCPR Ratified: 8 September 2000. Reports submitted/due: 1/1 Reservations and Declarations: Articles7, 12(3); ten states filed objections to the reservations. - International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination - CERD Acceded: 20 February 1974. Reports submitted/due: 5/14 No reservation. - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women - CEDAW Acceded: 13 August 1996. Reports submitted/due: 0/2 - Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC Acceded: 14 March 1995 Reports submitted/due: 0/1 Reservations and Declarations: Article 1; four states filed objections to this reservation. ILO treaties ILO 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (1948) - date of ratification: 22.12.1997 ILO 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949) - date of ratification: 22.12.1997 ILO 111 Convention concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation (1958) - date of ratification: 05.06.1997 ILO 138 Minimum Age Convention (1973) - date of ratification: 05.06.1997 ILO 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999) - date of ratification: 03.01.2000 African System The African Charter on Human and People's Rights Date of Ratification: 17.07.1986 Constitutional Guarantees of the right to education Date of adoption/date of entry into force - 30 September 1966 Relevant Provisions [The Constitution includes human rights guarantees, but not the right to education.] Chapter II - Protection of fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual. (…) Art.11 - 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 for the purposes of this section, 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; and no such community shall be prevented from providing religious instruction for persons of that community in the course of any education provided at any place of education which it wholly maintains or in the course of any education which it otherwise provides. (3) 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 other than his own.