International Instruments - Minimum Age of Marriage
This document lists the international instruments that refer to the minimum age of marriage with their relevant provisions.
International Instruments - Minimum Age of Employment
This document lists the international instruments that refer to the minimum age of employment with their relevant provisions.
International Instruments - Minimum Age of Military Recruitment
This document lists the international instruments that refer to the minimum age of military recruitment with their relevant provisions.
International Instruments - Free and Compulsory Education
This document lists the international instruments that refer to free and compulsory education with their relevant provisions.
CRC General Comment 9: The Rights of Children with Disabilities
The General Comment 9 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child interprets the Convention on the Rights of the Child as regards the rights of children with disabilies, including their right to education (see paragraphs 62 to 69)
Dakar Framework for Action
The Education for All (EFA) movement is a global commitment to provide quality basic education for all children, youth and adults. At the World Education Forum (Dakar, 2000), 164 governments pledged to achieve EFA and identified six goals to be met by 2015. Governments, development agencies, civil society and the private sector are working together to reach the EFA goals.
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples establishes a universal framework of minimum standards for the survival, dignity, well-being and rights of the world's indigenous peoples. The Declaration addresses both individual and collective rights; cultural rights and identity; rights to education, health, employment, language, and others. It outlaws discrimination against indigenous peoples and promotes their full and effective participation in all matters that concern them.
CCPR General Comment 22 on Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion
General Comment 22 by the Human Rights Committee interprets the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion (Article 18 of the ICCPR). See paragraph 6 in particular.
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities applies to persons with disabilities and reaffirms that all persons with all types of disabilities must enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms.
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination prohibits racial discrimination in the enjoyment of human rights, including economic, social and cultural rights. Article 5 guarantees the right to education of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour or national or ethnic origin. Article 7 encourages States to take measures to combat prejudices, which lead to racial discrimination in the field of teaching and education and to promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among nations and racial or ethnical gro