[International obligations and access to remedies]

Dominica back --» back to introduction --» United Nations Treaties Date of admission to UN: 18 December 1978. - International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights - ICESCR Acceded: 17 June 1993. Reports submitted/due: 0/2 No reservations - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - ICCPR Acceded: 17 June 1993. Reports submitted/due: 0/2 No reservations - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - CEDAW Ratified: 15 September 1980. Reports submitted/due: 0/5 No reservations - Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC Ratified: 13 March 1991. Reports submitted/due: 0/2 No reservations ILO treaties ILO 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (1948) - date of ratification: 28.02.1983 ILO 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949) - date of ratification: 28.02.1983 ILO 111 Convention concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation (1958) - date of ratification: 28.02.1983 ILO 138 Minimum Age Convention (1973) - date of ratification: 27.09.1983. ILO 169 Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (1989) - date of ratification: 25.06.2002 ILO 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999) - date of ratification: 04.01.2001 Inter-American System American Convention on Human Rights - ACHR ("Pact of San Jose") Date of Ratification: 03.06.1993 Constitutional Guarantees of the right to education Date of adoption/date of entry into force - 3 November 1978 Relevant Provisions (…) The Constitution includes human rights guarantees, but not the right to education. But, see: Chapter I - Protection of fundamental rights and freedoms Art.9 - Protection of freedom of conscience (1) Except with his own consent, a person shall not 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 it 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.