E/CN.4/1995/91 page 151 QUESTIONNAIRE ADDRESSED TO GOVERNMENTS AND RELATING TO FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND BELIEF IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS 1. Is there a constitutional or legislative definition in your country of the foundations of religious instruction? If so, how is it worded? 2. How many religious primary and secondary schools are there? percentage of all primary and secondary schools do they account? For what 3. For how many years is religious instruction guaranteed in primary and secondary schools? 4. Is religious instruction compulsory or optional in primary and secondary schools? 5. Does religious instruction cover one religion or more than one? Which one (or ones)? Where religious instruction does cover more than one religion, on what basis is instruction relating specifically to each religion divided up? 6. How many hours of religious instruction are given per week in the last year of primary school and in the last year of secondary school? 7. Do the results of religious instruction count - and for how much - in the overall results for the last year of primary school and of secondary school? 8. In primary and/or secondary schools, are students separated on the basis of difference of religion or belief or of difference of sex? 9. What authorities and bodies take part in drawing up primary and secondary school curricula and, in particular, religious instruction curricula? 10. What rules govern the preparation of school textbooks and, in particular, religious textbooks at the primary and secondary school levels? 11. Are religious questions dealt with in specific curricula and textbooks or covered in curricula and textbooks generally? 12. How much quantitative importance is attached to the study of religions other than the majority religion? 13. Do school curricula and textbooks deal with freedom of religion and belief, including freedom of non-belief? 14. Do school curricula and textbooks include an introduction to the practice of religion? How much time on average is spent on this introduction per week? Does it take place in the school or outside? Under whose guidance? Is it compulsory or optional? Is it based on the majority religion or does it take account of different religious affiliations? 15. Do school curricula and textbooks refer to questions relating to the elimination of all forms of intolerance and of discrimination based on religion or belief?