|
United Nations Treaties
|
 |
Date of admission to UN: 13 October 1970.
- International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination - CERD
Succeeded: 11 January 1973.
Reports submitted/due: 5/15
Reservations and Declarations: Articles 2, 3, 4, 5(c), 5(d)(v), 5(e)(v), 6, 15 and 20.
Declaration:
"To the extent, if any, that any law relating to elections in Fiji may not fulfil the obligations referred to in article 5 (c), that any law relating to land in Fiji which prohibits or restricts the alienation of land by the indigenous inhabitants may not fulfil the obligations referred to in article 5 (d) (v), or that the school system of Fiji may not fulfil the obligations referred to in articles 2, 3, or 5 (e) (v), the Government of Fiji reserves the right not to implement the aforementioned provisions of the Convention."
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - CEDAW
Acceded: 28 August 1995.
Reports submitted/due: 1/2
No reservation related to the right to education
- Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC
Ratified: 13 August 1993.
Reports submitted/due: 1/2
No reservations
|
 |
|
ILO treaties
|
|
ILO 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (1948) - date of ratification: 17.04.2002
ILO 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949) - date of ratification: 19.04.1974
ILO 111 Convention concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation (1958) - date of ratification: 17.04.2002
ILO 169 Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Conventions (1989): 03.03.1998
ILO 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999) - date of ratification: 17.04.2002
|
|
Constitutional Guarantees
of the right to education
|
|
Date of adoption/date of entry into force - 27 July 1998
Relevant Provisions
Chapter 4 - Bill of rights
Art.35 - Religion and belief
(2) Every person has the right, either individually or in community with others, and both in public and in private, to manifest his or her religion or belief in worship, observance, practice or teaching.
(3) The right set out in subsection (2) extends to the right of religious communities or denominations to provide religious instruction as part of any education provided by them, whether or not they are in receipt of any financial assistance from the State.
(5) Except with his own consent, (…), a person attending a place of education is not required to receive religious instruction or to take part in or attend a religious ceremony or observance, if the instruction, ceremony or observance relates to a religion that is not his or her own or if he or she does not hold any religious belief.
Art.39 - Education
(1) Every person has the right to basic education and to equal access to educational institutions.
(2) Every religious community or denomination and every cultural or social community has the right to establish and maintain places of education and to manage them, whether or not it receives financial assistance from the State.
(3) The admission policy of a place of education referred to in subsection (2) may be administered on the basis of the need to maintain its special character but, subject to that, those concerned in its management must ensure that it is open to all qualified students without discrimination on any ground prohibited by this Constitution.
(4) Nothing contained in, or done under the authority of, a law prescribing standards or qualifications for educational institutions is inconsistent with this section to the extent that the requirements of the law are reasonable and justifiable in a free and democratic society.
|
|
|