[International obligations and access to remedies]

Ukraine back --» back to introduction --» United Nations Treaties Date of admission to UN: 24 October 1945. - International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights - ICESCR Ratified: 12 November 1973. Reports submitted/due: 4/4 No reservations - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - ICCPR Ratified: 12 November 1973. Reports submitted/due: 5/5 No reservations Optional Protocol: Acceded: 25 July 1991. - International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination - CERD Ratified: 7 March 1969. Reports submitted/due: 16/17 No reservations. - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - CEDAW Ratified: 12 March 1981. Reports submitted/due: 5/6 No reservations. - Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC Ratified: 28 August 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: 14.05.1956 ILO 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949) - date of ratification: 14.05.1956 ILO 111 Convention concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation (1958) - date of ratification: 04.08.1961 ILO 138 Minimum Age Convention (1973) - date of ratification: 03.05.1979. ILO 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999) - date of ratification: 14.12.2000 European System Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms - European Convention - ECHR Date of Ratification: 11.09.1997 No reservation related to the right to education. Protocol Nº 01 to the European Convention Date of Ratification: 11.09.1997 Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities Date of Ratification: 26.01.1998 Constitutional Guarantees of the right to education Date of adoption/date of entry into force - 28 June 1996 Relevant Provisions (…) Chapter II - Human and citizens' rights, freedoms and duties Art.53 Everyone has the right to education. Complete general secondary education is compulsory. The State ensures accessible and free pre-school, complete general secondary, vocational and higher education in state and communal educational establishments; the development of pre-school, complete general secondary, extra-curricular, vocational, higher and post-graduate education, various forms of instruction; the provision of state scholarships and privileges to pupils and students. Citizens have the right to obtain free higher education in state and communal educational establishments on a competitive basis. Citizens who belong to national minorities are guaranteed in accordance with the law the right to receive instruction in their native language, or to study their native language in state and communal educational establishments and through national cultural societies.