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primary education [Global Index]


ARTICLE-13     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (a) Primary education shall be compulsory and available free to all; ...
... (d) Fundamental education shall be encouraged or intensified as far as possible for those persons who have not received or completed the whole period of their primary education; ...


ARTICLE-14     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Each State Party to the present Covenant which, at the time of becoming a Party, has not been able to secure in its metropolitan territory or other territories under its jurisdiction compulsory primary education, free of charge, undertakes, within two years, to work out and adopt a detailed plan of action for the progressive implementation, within a reasonable number of years, to be fixed in the plan, of the principle of compulsory education free of charge for all. ...