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The Right to Education & Discrimination in Education Other Relevant UN Documents See also: UNESCO's Official Texts and Legal Documents Support Documents Documents Convention on the Rights of the Child, see esp article 29, 29 and 30. (1989) General comment 1 from the Committee on the Rights of the Child: The aims of education (2001) General comment 11 from the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Plans of action for Primary Education (1999) General comment 13 from the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: The Right to Education (1999) General comment 16 from the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: The Equal Right of men and women to the enjoyment of all Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2005) ILO Convention nr. 138 on Minimum Age of Employment (1973) ILO Convention nr. 169 concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (1989) ILO Convention nr. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour (1999) International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, see esp articles 5 and 7 (1965) International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, see esp article 30 (1990) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, see esp article 18(4) (1966) International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, see esp. article 13 and 14 (1966) Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (2002) Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (2002) Plan of Action for the First Phase (2005-2007) of the World Programme for Human Rights Education (2004) The Declaration of Commitment of the United Nation General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on HIV/AIDS (2001) The Geneva Conventions of 1949, see esp articles 24, 50, 94 and 108 The United Nations Human Rights Treaty System: An Introduction to the Core Human Rights Treaties and the Treaty Bodies. Fact Sheet No. 30 from UNOHCHR (2005) Universal Declaration of Human Rights, see esp article 26 (1948) Various Reports from UN Spec. Rap on RTE (1999-2006)

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