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United Nations Treaties
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Date of admission to UN: The Holy See is a non-Member State with observer status.
- International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination - CERD
Ratified: 1 May 1969.
Reports submitted/due: 15/17
No reservations
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - CEDAW
Acceded: 11 May 1994.
Reports submitted/due: 0/2
No reservations.
- Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC
Ratified: 20 April 1990.
Reports submitted/due: ½
Reservations:
"a) [The Holy See] interprets the phrase `Family planning education and services' in article 24.2, to mean only those methods of family planning which it considers morally acceptable, that is, the natural methods of family planning.
"b) [The Holy See] interprets the articles of the Convention in a way which safeguards the primary and inalienable rights of parents, in particular insofar as these rights concern education (articles 13 and 28), religion (article 14), association with others (article 15) and privacy (article 16).
"c) [The Holy See declares] that the application of the Convention be compatible in practice with the particular nature of the Vatican City State and of the sources of its objective law (art. 1, Law of 7 June 1929, n. 11) and, in consideration of its limited extent, with its legislation in the matters of citizenship, access and residence."
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Constitutional Guarantees
of the right to education
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Holy See has no written constitution.
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