[International obligations and access to remedies]
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United Nations Treaties Date of admission to UN: 17 September 1974.

- International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights - ICESCR
Acceded: 6 September 1991.
Reports submitted/due: 0/2
No reservations

- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - ICCPR
Acceded: 6 September 1991.
Reports submitted/due: 0/2
No reservations

- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - CEDAW
Ratified: 30 August 1990.
Reports submitted/due: 0/3
No reservations

- Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC
Ratified: 5 November 1990.
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: 25.10.1994
ILO 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949) - date of ratification: 09.07.1979
Inter-American System American Convention on Human Rights - ACHR ("Pact of San Jose")
Date of Ratification: 18.07.1978
Constitutional Guarantees
of the right to education
Date of adoption/date of entry into force - 7 February 1974
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, no person shall 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 (…), no person attending any place of education (…) shall be required to receive religious instruction (…) if that instruction (…) relates to a religion other than his own.
(3) Every 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 wholly maintains; and no such community shall be prevented from providing religious instruction for persons of that community in the course of any education provided at any place of education which it wholly maintains or in the course of any education which it otherwise provides.