Convention against Discrimination in Education. Paris, 14 December 1960.¹

	States	Date of deposit of instrument	Type of instrument
1	China²
2	France	11/09/1961	Ratification
3	Israel	22/09/1961	Ratification
4	Central African Republic	22/02/1962	Acceptance
5	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	14/03/1962	Acceptance
6	Egypt	28/03/1962	Acceptance
7	Liberia	17/05/1962	Ratification
8	Russian Federation	01/08/1962	Ratification
9	Cuba	02/11/1962	Ratification
10	Bulgaria	04/12/1962	Acceptance
11	Belarus	12/12/1962	Ratification
12	Ukraine	19/12/1962	Ratification
13	Norway	08/01/1963	Ratification
14	Kuwait	15/01/1963	Acceptance
15	New Zealand	12/02/1963	Ratification
16	Benin	09/07/1963	Acceptance
17	Costa Rica	10/09/1963	Ratification
18	Denmark	04/10/1963	Ratification
19	Argentina	30/10/1963	Ratification
20	Albania	21/11/1963	Ratification
21	Hungary	16/01/1964	Ratification
22	Romania	09/07/1964	Ratification
23	Poland	15/09/1964	Ratification
24	Lebanon	27/10/1964	Ratification
25	Mongolia	04/11/1964	Ratification
26	Philippines	19/11/1964	Acceptance
27	Guinea	11/12/1964	Acceptance
28	Madagascar	21/12/1964	Ratification
29	Malta	05/01/1966	Notification of succession
30	Netherlands	25/03/1966	Ratification
31	Italy	06/10/1966	Ratification
32	Australia	29/11/1966	Acceptance
33	Peru	19/12/1966	Ratification
34	Indonesia	10/01/1967	Acceptance
35	Sierra Leone	02/06/1967	Ratification
36	Panama	10/08/1967	Acceptance
37	Senegal	25/09/1967	Ratification
38	Sweden	21/03/1968	Ratification
39	Brazil	19/04/1968	Ratification
40	Niger	16/07/1968	Acceptance
41	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	17/07/1968	Acceptance
42	Germany	17/07/1968	Ratification
43	Morocco	30/08/1968	Acceptance
44	Uganda	09/09/1968	Acceptance
45	Congo	16/09/1968	Ratification
46	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	16/12/1968	Ratification
47	Algeria	24/12/1968	Acceptance
48	Spain	20/08/1969	Acceptance
49	Tunisia	29/08/1969	Ratification
50	Nigeria	18/11/1969	Acceptance
51	Luxembourg	20/01/1970	Ratification
52	Cyprus	09/06/1970	Acceptance
53	Mauritius	20/08/1970	Notification of succession
54	Swaziland	08/10/1970	Acceptance
55	Finland	18/10/1971	Ratification
56	Chile	26/10/1971	Ratification
57	Libya	09/01/1973	Ratification
58	Saudi Arabia	17/08/1973	Ratification
59	Barbados	24/06/1975	Notification of succession
60	Jordan	06/04/1976	Acceptance
61	Iraq	28/06/1977	Ratification
62	Dominican Republic	30/08/1977	Ratification
63	United Republic of Tanzania	03/01/1979	Ratification
64	Ecuador	05/03/1979	Acceptance
65	Portugal	08/01/1981	Ratification
66	Nicaragua	28/09/1981	Ratification
67	Solomon Islands	19/03/1982	Notification of succession
68	Belize	01/12/1982	Notification of succession
69	Guatemala	04/02/1983	Ratification
70	Dominica	14/03/1983	Notification of succession
71	Sri Lanka	11/08/1983	Acceptance
72	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	22/01/1985	Notification of succession
73	Brunei Darusalaam	25/01/1985	Notification of succession
74	Croatia	06/07/1992	Notification of succession
75	Tajikistan	28/08/1992	Notification of succession
76	Georgia	04/11/1992	Notification of succession
77	Slovenia	05/11/1992	Notification of succession
78	Republic of Moldova	17/03/1993	Notification of succession
79	Czech Republic	26/03/1993	Notification of succession
80	Slovakia	31/03/1993	Notification of succession
81	Bosnia and Herzegovina	12/07/1993	Notification of succession
82	Armenia	05/09/1993	Notification of succession
83	Kyrgyzstan	03/07/1995	Acceptance
84	The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	30/04/1997	Notification of succession
85	Uzbekistan	08/12/1997	Ratification
86	Côte d'Ivoire	24/11/1999	Ratification
87	South Africa	09/03/2000	Ratification
88	Rwanda	28/12/2000	Acceptance
89	Serbia	11/09/2001	Notification of succession
90	Uruguay	03/05/2004	Acceptance
91	Jamaica	16/03/2006	Ratification
92	Zimbabwe	30/05/2006	Acceptance
93	Montenegro	26/04/2007	Notification of succession
94	Mali	07/12/2007	Ratification
95	Latvia	16/06/2009	Acceptance
96	Afghanistan	25/01/2010	Acceptance
97	Seychelles	27/07/2010	Acceptance
98	Togo	03/04/2012	Ratification
99	Monaco	28/08/2012	Acceptance
100	Burkina Faso	04/09/2012	Ratification

¹This Convention entered into force on 22 May 1962. It subsequently entered into force for each State three months after the date of deposit of that State’s instrument, except in cases of declaration of succession, where the entry into force occurred on the date on which the State assumed responsibility for conducting its international relations.

²On 17 October 1999, China notified the Director-General of UNESCO that the Convention will continue to apply to the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China with effect from 20 December 1999.

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Convention against Discrimination in Education. Paris, 14 December 1960.¹