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Divided into: Primary (publicly funded, free and non-compulsory, and inspected by the national Executive Branch); Secondary (funded by the Nation when the respective establishments operate in the capital of the Republic and inspected by the Executive Branch); Industrial and Professional (funded by the Nation when the respective establishments operate in the capital of the Republic); or by the Departments (in other cases).
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Regulation of Law 89 of 1903.
According to Colombian legislation of 1904, primary education was to be taught in urban and rural schools. The difference lay in the curriculum.
Urban schools lasted six years (two for elementary school, two for secondary school, and two for higher education).
Rural schools lasted only three years.
Attending the church, they studied in separate classrooms; boys in one and girls in the other, a situation that lasted until 1960. -
There shall be in the capital of the Republic a National Pedagogical Institute for teachers and another for teachers, where teachers of lower, higher, and normal schools, as well as professors qualified for didactic teaching and for the direction and inspection of national public education, shall be educated in pedagogical science.
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It allows the secularization of education, the influence that the church will have until the end of the eighties and beginning of the nineties is marked.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a landmark document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives from all regions of the world with diverse legal and cultural backgrounds, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on December 10, 1948, in its Resolution 217 A (III) as a common ideal for all peoples and nations.
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During the first half of the 20th century in Colombia, education was characterized by low enrollment rates, a lack of teachers and their poor or no training, a high illiteracy rate, limited investment and priority by different governments, and the influence of the Catholic Church.
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The enrollment rate is increasing significantly, as is the number of schools (with the public sector gaining greater participation), the number of teachers is growing, and the teacher-student ratio is improving. This improvement in indicators occurs in a context characterized by population growth, rapid urbanization, and the growth of the industrial sector, which, in some cases, requires a skilled workforce.
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This plan contemplates the unification of primary school into five years in urban and rural areas and the division of secondary school into two cycles, one focused on practical and technical careers and the other on university and teacher training colleges.
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The Colombian Primary Education Curriculum is adopted and other provisions are issued.
Primary school is unified into five years in urban and rural areas, and secondary school is divided into two cycles: one focused on practical and technical careers and the other on university and teacher training colleges. -
Right to privacy and its protection by law. Freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. Prohibition of propaganda promoting war or national, racial, or religious hatred. Right to peaceful assembly.
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The Covenant expands on the civil and political rights and freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Under Article 1 of the Covenant, states undertake to promote the right to self-determination and to respect that right.
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The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (PIDESC) and its Optional Protocol are the international instruments of the Universal System for the Protection of Human Rights, that is, the United Nations System, that regulate the protection of economic, social and cultural rights (DESC).
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At the beginning of the 1980s, the Colombian Federation of Educators (FECODE) decided at its XII Congress to promote the pedagogical movement at the national level, which aimed, among other things, to study and research public educational policies and pedagogical issues.
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The United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is based on the 1963 Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
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El artículo 17 establece un Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación contra la Mujer con el fin de examinar los progresos en la aplicación de la Convención. El Comité se compone por 23 expertos elegidos por los Estados Parte entre sus nacionales y que ejercen sus funciones a título personal.
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States Parties recognize the right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous, interfere with the child's education, or be harmful to the child's health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral, or social development.
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The General Education Law (Law 115, of February 8, 1994) was the result of extensive discussion and sought to integrate elements consistent with constitutional development, related to participation, peace, human rights, and democracy.
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The Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is the only universal international treaty that prohibits executions and aims at the complete abolition of the death penalty.