• Prohibition against forced labour and economic exploitation of children, and other vulnerable
persons;
• The right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours, periodic holidays
with pay and remuneration for public holidays.
7. The right to health in article 16 of the Charter entails among other things the following:
• Availability of accessible and affordable health facilities, goods and services of reasonable quality
for all;
• Access to the minimum essential food which is nutritionally adequate and safe to ensure freedom
from hunger to everyone and to prevent malnutrition;
• Access to basic shelter, housing and sanitation and adequate supply of safe and potable water;
• Access to reproductive, maternal and child health care based on the life cycle approach to health;
• Immunisation against major infectious diseases;
• Education, prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other major killer
diseases;
• Education and access to information concerning the main health problems in the community
including methods of preventing and controlling them;
• Training for health personnel including education on health and human rights;
• Access to humane and dignified care of the elderly and for persons with mental and physical
disabilities;
8. The right to education in article 17 of the African Charter entails among other things the following:
• Provision of free and compulsory basic education that will also include a programme in psychosocial education for orphans and vulnerable children;
• Provision of special schools and facilities for physically and mentally disabled children;
• Access to affordable secondary and higher education;
• Accessible and affordable vocational training and adult education;
• Addressing social, economic and cultural practices and attitudes that hinder access to education by
girl children;
• Availability of educational institutions that are physically and economically accessible to everyone;
• Development of curricula that address diverse social, economic and cultural settings and which
inculcate human rights norms and values for responsible citizens;
• Liberty of parents and guardians to choose for their children schools, other than those established
by the public authorities, which conform to such minimum educational standards as may be laid