[International obligations and access to remedies]

Jamaica back --» back to introduction --» United Nations Treaties Date of admission to UN: 18 September 1962. - International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights - ICESCR Ratified: 3 October 1975. Reports submitted/due: 2/3 No reservations - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - ICCPR Ratified: 3 October 1975. Reports submitted/due: 2/3 No reservations Optional Protocol: ratified: 3 October 1975; denounced: 23 October 1997. - International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination - CERD Ratified: 4 June 1971. Reports submitted/due: 15/16 General Declaration: Ratification of the Convention does not imply acceptance of obligations going beyond the constitutional limits. - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - CEDAW Ratified 19 October 1984. Reports submitted/due: 4/5 Reservation to article 29. - Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC Ratified: 14 May 1991. Reports submitted/due: 2/2 No reservations ILO treaties ILO 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (1948) - date of ratification: 26.12.1962 ILO 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949) - date of ratification: 26.12.1962 ILO 111 Convention concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation (1958) - date of ratification: 10.01.1975 Inter-American System American Convention on Human Rights - ACHR ("Pact of San Jose") Date of Ratification: 07.08.1978 Constitutional Guarantees of the right to education Date of adoption/date of entry into force - 25 July 1962 The Constitution includes human rights guarantees, but not the right to education. But, see: Chapter III - Fundamental rights and freedoms Art.21 - Protection of freedom of conscience (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 section 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) 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. No religious body or denomination shall be prevented from providing religious instruction for persons of that body or denomination in the course of any education provided by that body or denomination whether or not that body or denomination is in receipt of any government subsidy, grant or other form of financial assistance designed to meet, in whole or in part, the cost of such course of education.