The individual in international law — Human rights and freedoms — Education — Duty of State to respect religious and philosophical convictions of parents — Compulsory sex education in State schools — Duty of State to ensure that information is presented in an objective, critical and pluralistic manner — Duty of State not to pursue policy of indoctrination — Relevance of the existence of heavily subsidised private schools and right of parents to educate children at home — Right of exemption from religious but not from sex education — Whether discrimination in regard to a protected right — European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Articles 8, 9 and 14 — First Protocol to the Convention, Article 2

Procedure of the European Court of Human Rights — Applicant wishing to withdraw application after matter referred to Court by European Commission on Human Rights