[International obligations and access to remedies]

Lesotho back --» back to introduction --» United Nations Treaties Date of admission to UN: 17 October 1966. - International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights - ICESCR Acceded: 9 September 1992. Reports submitted/due: 0/2 No reservations - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - ICCPR Acceded: 9 September 1992. Reports submitted/due: 1/2 No reservations Optional Protocol: Acceded: 6 September 2000. - International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination - CERD Acceded: 4 November 1971. Reports submitted/due: 14/15 No reservations. - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - CEDAW Ratified: 22 August 1995. Reports submitted/due: 0/2 Reservations and Declarations: Article 2; four states filed objections to this reservation. Reservation: "(…) the Lesotho Government declares it shall not take any legislative measures under the Convention where those measures would be incompatible with the Constitution of Lesotho." Optional Protocol: Signed: 6 September 2000. - Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC Ratified 10 March 1992. 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: 31.10.1966 ILO 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949) - date of ratification: 31.10.1966 ILO 111 Convention concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation (1958) - date of ratification: 27.01.1998 ILO 138 Minimum Age Convention (1973) - date of ratification: 14.06.2001. ILO 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999) - date of ratification: 14.06.2001 African System The African Charter on Human and People's Rights Date of Ratification: 10.02.1992 The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child Date of Ratification: 27.09.1999 Constitutional Guarantees of the right to education Date of adoption/date of entry into force - 2 April 1993 Relevant Provisions (…) Chapter II - Protection of fundamental human rights and freedoms (…) Art.13 (1) Every person shall be entitled to, and (except with his own consent) shall not be hindered in his enjoyment of 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) 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. (3) 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. (…) Chapter III - Principles of state policy (…) Art.28 Lesotho shall endeavor to make education available to all and shall adopt policies aimed at securing that: (a) Education is directed to the full development of the human personality and sense of dignity and strengthening the respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; (b) Primary education is compulsory and available to all; (c) Secondary education, including technical and vocational education, is made generally available and accessible to all by every appropriate means, and in particular, by the progressive introduction of free education; (d) Higher education is made equally accessible to all, on the basis of capacity, by every appropriate means, and in particular, by the progressive introduction of free education; (e) Fundamental education is encouraged or intensified as far as possible for those persons who have not received or completed their primary education