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United Nations Treaties Date of admission to UN: 20 September 1960.
- International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights - ICESCR
Acceded: 4 January 1999
Reports submitted/due: 0/1
No reservations

- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - ICCPR
Acceded: 4 January 1999.
Reports submitted/due: 0/1
No reservations
Optional Protocol: Acceded: 4 January 1999

- International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination - CERD
Acceded: 18 July 1974.
Reports submitted/due: 11/13
No reservations.

- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women - CEDAW
Acceded: 14 October 1987.
Reports submitted/due: 3/4
No reservations.

- Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC
Ratified: 31 August 1990
Reports submitted/due: 2/2
No reservations
ILO treaties ILO 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (1948) - date of ratification: 21.11.1960
ILO 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949) - date of ratification: 16.04.1962
ILO 111 Convention concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation (1958) - date of ratification: 16.04.1962
ILO 138 Minimum Age Convention (1973) - date of ratification: 11.02.1999
ILO 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999) - date of ratification: 25.07.2001
African System The African Charter on Human and People's Rights
Date of Ratification: 06.07.1984

The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
Date of Ratification: 08.06.1992
Constitutional Guarantees
of the right to education
Date of adoption/date of entry into force - 11 June 1991
Relevant Provisions

Title I - Fundamental rights and duties
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Chapter IV - Social and Cultural rights and Duties
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Art.18
Education, instruction, formation, (…) constitute the social and cultural rights recognized by the present Constitution which aims to promote them.
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Art. 27 Every citizen has the right to instruction.
Public Education is secular.
Private Education is recognized. The law establishes the conditions of its exercise.