[International obligations and access to remedies]

Guyana back --» back to introduction --» United Nations Treaties Date of admission to UN: 20 September 1966. - International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights - ICESCR Ratified: 15 February 1977. Reports submitted/due: 1/2 No reservations - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - ICCPR Ratified: 15 February 1977. Reports submitted/due: 2/3 No reservations Optional Protocol: Acceded 10 May 1993; denounced 5 January 1999; re-acceded: 5 April 1999. - International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination - CERD Ratified: 15 February 1977. Reports submitted/due: 0/13 General declaration: Guyana does not interpret the provisions of the Convention as imposing upon them any obligation going beyond the limits set by the Constitution. - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - CEDAW Ratified: 17 July 1980. Reports submitted/due: 2/5 No reservations - Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC Ratified: 14 January 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: 25.09.1967 ILO 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949) - date of ratification: 08.06.1966 ILO 111 Convention concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation (1958) - date of ratification: 13.06.1975 ILO 138 Minimum Age Convention (1973) - date of ratification: 15.04.1998. ILO 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999) - date of ratification: 15.01.2001 Constitutional Guarantees of the right to education Date of adoption/date of entry into force - 20 February 1980 Relevant Provisions (…) Part I - General principles Chapter II - Principles and bases of the political, economical and social system. Art.27 Every citizen has the right to free education from nursery to university as well as at non-formal places where opportunities are provided for education and training. Art.28 Every young person has the right to ideological, social, cultural and vocational development and to the opportunity for responsible participation in the development of the socialist order of society. Art.29 (2) The exercise of women's rights is ensured by according women equal access with men to academic, vocational and professional training, (…). Part II - Specific rules Title 1 - Protection of fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual Art.145 (1) Except with his own consent, no person shall be hindered in the enjoyment of his freedom of conscience, and for the purposes of this article the said freedom includes (…) 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) No religious community shall be prevented from providing religious instruction for persons of that community. 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 which is not his own.