[International obligations and access to remedies]

Gabon back --» back to introduction --» United Nations Treaties Date of admission to UN: 20 September 1960. - International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights - ICESCR Acceded: 21 January 1983. Reports submitted/due: 0/3 No reservations - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - ICCPR Acceded: 21 January 1983. Reports submitted/due: 2/2 No reservations - International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination - CERD Ratified: 29 February 1980. Reports submitted/due: 9/11 No reservations. - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - CEDAW Ratified: 21 January 1983. Reports submitted/due: 1/5 No reservations - Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC Ratified: 9 February 1994. 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: 14.10.1960 ILO 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949) - date of ratification: 29.05.1961 ILO 111 Convention concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation (1958) - date of ratification: 29.05.1961 ILO 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999) - date of ratification: 28.03.2001 African System The African Charter on Human and People's Rights Date of Ratification: 20.02.1986 Constitutional Guarantees of the right to education Date of adoption/date of entry into force - 26 March 1991 Relevant Provisions (…) Preliminary Title - Fundamental rights and principles Art. One The Gabonese Republic recognizes and guarantees the inviolable and imprescriptible rights of Man, which obligatorily constrain public powers. (16) The support to be given to children and their education constitute, for parents, a natural right and duty which they exercise under the surveillance and with the aid of the State and public entities. Parents have the right, in the area of scholarly obligation, to decide upon the moral and religious education of their children. The children have, vis-a-vis the State, the same rights concerning assistance as well as their physical, intellectual and moral development. (18) The State guarantees equal access of the child and the adult to instruction, to professional education and to culture. (19) The State has a duty to organize public education on the principle of religious neutrality and, according to possibilities, on the basis of gratuity; the granting of diplomas is the prerogative of the State. However, freedom of education is guaranteed to all. Any person may open a preschool, primary, secondary, superior establishment or a university, under conditions fixed by law. In Public educational establishments, religious instruction may be dispensed to students upon the demand of their parents, under conditions determined by regulations.