[International obligations and access to remedies]

El Salvador back --» back to introduction --» United Nations Treaties Date of admission to UN: 24 October 1945. - International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights - ICESCR Ratified: 30 November 1979. Reports submitted/due: 1/3 No reservations - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - ICCPR Ratified: 30 November 1979. Reports submitted/due: 2/5 No reservations Optional Protocol: ratified: 6 June 1995. - International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination - CERD Acceded: 30 November 1979. Reports submitted/due: 8/11 No reservations. - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - CEDAW Ratified: 19 August 1981. Reports submitted/due: 5/5 Reservation to article 29. - Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC Ratified: 10 July 1990. Reports submitted/due: 1/2 No reservations ILO treaties ILO 111 Convention concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation (1958) - date of ratification: 15.06.1995 ILO 138 Minimum Age Convention (1973) - date of ratification: 23.01.1996. ILO 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999) - date of ratification: 12.10.2000 Inter-American System American Convention on Human Rights - ACHR ("Pact of San Jose") Date of Ratification: 23.06.1978 Additional Protocol to the American convention on Human Rights in the Area od Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ("Protocol of San Salvador") Date of Ratification: 06.06.1995 Constitutional Guarantees of the right to education Date of adoption/date of entry into force - 15 December 1983 Relevant Provisions (…) Title II - The rights and fundamental guarantees of the person Chapter II - Social rights Third Section - Education, science and culture Art.53 The right to education and culture is inherent to the human person; in consequence, the preservation, promotion, and dissemination of culture is an obligation and the primary end of the State. Art.54 The State shall organize the educational system for which it will create the necessary institutions and services. Natural and juridical persons are guaranteed the liberty to establish private centers of teaching. Art.55 Parents shall have the preferential right to choose the education of their children. Art.56 All inhabitants of the Republic have the right and the duty to receive a simple and basic education that will train them to perform as useful citizens. The State shall promote the formation of special education centers. When imparted by the State, simple, basic and special education shall be free. Art.58 No educational establishment shall refuse to accept students because of the marital status of their parents or guardians, nor for social, religious, racial or political differences. Art.60 In all public or private, civil or military teaching centers the instruction of national history, civics, morality, the Constitution of the Republic, human rights and the conservation of the natural resources shall be obligatory. Academic liberty is guaranteed. Art.61 The University of El Salvador and the others of the State shall enjoy autonomy in teaching, administrative and economic aspects. The funds destined to the sustainment of the state universities and those necessary to assure and increase its patrimony shall be consigned annually in the state Budget. The State shall keep watch for the democratic functioning of the institutions of higher education and for their adequate academic level.