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United Nations Treaties
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Date of admission to UN: 20 September 1960.
- International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights - ICESCR
Ratified: 22 September 1971
Reports submitted/due: 1/4
Reservations and Declarations: Article 13(2).
The Government of Madagascar states that it reserves the right to postpone the application of article 13, paragraph 2, of the Covenant, more particularly in so far as relates to primary education, since, while the Malagasy Government fully accepts the principles embodied in the said paragraph and undertakes to take the necessary steps to apply them in their entirety at the earliest possible date, the problems of implementation, and particularly the financial implications, are such that full application of the principles in question cannot be guaranteed at this stage.
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - ICCPR
Ratified: 21 June 1971.
Reports submitted/due: 2/5
No reservations
Optional Protocol: Signed: 17 September 1969; ratified: 21 June 1971.
- International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination - CERD
Ratified: 7 February 1969.
Reports submitted/due: 9/16
Reservations and Declarations: Article 22.
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - CEDAW
Ratified: 17 March 1989.
Reports submitted/due: 1/4
No reservations
- Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC
Ratified: 19 March 1991.
Reports submitted/due: 2/2
No reservations
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ILO treaties
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ILO 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (1948) - date of ratification: 01.11.1960
ILO 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949) - date of ratification: 03.06.1998
ILO 111 Convention concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation (1958) - date of ratification: 11.08.1961
ILO 138 Minimum Age Convention (1973) - date of ratification: 31.05.2000.
ILO 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999) - date of ratification: 04.10.2001
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African System
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The African Charter on Human and People's Rights
Date of Ratification: 09.03.1992
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Constitutional Guarantees
of the right to education
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Date of adoption/date of entry into force - 8 April 1998
Relevant Provisions
(…)
Title II - Freedoms, rights, and duties of citizens
Sub-Title II - Economic, social and cultural rights and duties
(…)
Art.23
Every child has the right to instruction and to education at the responsibility of the parents, with respect to their freedom of choice.
Every adolescent has the right to professional training.
Art.24
The State organizes public education, free and accessible to all. Primary education is obligatory for all.
Art.25
The State recognizes the right to private education and guarantees the freedom to teach, subject to conditions of hygiene, of morality and of capacity established by the law.
Art.40
The State guarantees the political neutrality of the administration, of the armed forces, of justice, of teaching and education
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