Council of Europe Instruments Concerning the Career Guidance/Information/Vocational Counselling

European Social Charter (529 U.N.T.S. 89, Feb. 26, 1965)

Part I

The Contracting Parties accept as the aim of their policy, to be pursued by all appropriate means, both national and international in character, the attainment of conditions in which the following rights and principles may be effectively realised:

9. Everyone has the right to appropriate facilities for vocational guidance with a view to helping him choose an occupation suited to his personal aptitude and interests.

Part II

Article 1 - The right to work

With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to work, the Contracting Parties undertake:

3. To establish or maintain free employment services for all workers;
4. To provide or promote appropriate vocational guidance, training and rehabilitation.

Article 9 - The right to vocational guidance

With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to vocational guidance, the Contracting Parties undertake to provide or promote, as necessary, a service which will assist all persons, including the handicapped, to solve problems related to occupational choice and progress, with due regard to the individual's characteristics and their relation to occupational opportunity: this assistance should be available free of charge, both to young persons, including school children, and to adults.

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