The United Nations Human Rights Charter:
Article 26
1. Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
2. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
3. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
The European Convention on Human Rights:
[Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Paris, 20.III.1952 The Governments signatory hereto, being members of the Council of Europe, Being resolved to take steps to ensure the collective enforcement of certain rights and freedoms other than those already included in Section I of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms signed at Rome on 4 November1950 (hereinafter referred to as “the Convention”),]
ARTICLE 2
Right to education:
No person shall be denied the right to education. In the exercise of any functions which it assumes in relation to education and to teaching, the State shall respect the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions.
One wonders how Home Education can remain illegal in nations like Germany when they have put their 'names' to the ECHR, which clearly says: the State shall respect the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions. Surely this includes Home Education?
Then there is the UDHR [Universal Declaration of Human Rights], which Germany must also have signed up to which says: 3. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
Sources:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Documents/UDHR_Translations/eng.pdf
http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Convention_ENG.pdf
Article 26
1. Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
2. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
3. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
The European Convention on Human Rights:
[Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Paris, 20.III.1952 The Governments signatory hereto, being members of the Council of Europe, Being resolved to take steps to ensure the collective enforcement of certain rights and freedoms other than those already included in Section I of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms signed at Rome on 4 November1950 (hereinafter referred to as “the Convention”),]
ARTICLE 2
Right to education:
No person shall be denied the right to education. In the exercise of any functions which it assumes in relation to education and to teaching, the State shall respect the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions.
One wonders how Home Education can remain illegal in nations like Germany when they have put their 'names' to the ECHR, which clearly says: the State shall respect the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions. Surely this includes Home Education?
Then there is the UDHR [Universal Declaration of Human Rights], which Germany must also have signed up to which says: 3. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
Sources:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Documents/UDHR_Translations/eng.pdf
http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Convention_ENG.pdf
