Abby Buttle is the current Oxford Human Rights Hub-Rhodes University Research Fellow. She holds an LLB from the London School of Economics (LSE), a BCL from the University of Oxford and an LLM from Harvard Law School.
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High Court Victory upholding the Right to Education for Undocumented Learners in South Africa
On Thursday 12 December, the Makhanda High Court affirmed that all learners in South Africa have the constitutional right to a basic education and that the right cannot be denied because of a lack of identification documents.
The ...
Using Human Rights Law to Address the Sanitation Crisis in Makhanda
As the current Oxford Human Rights Hub/Rhodes University Travelling Fellow, I’ll be blogging about my experiences at the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) and the Rhodes University Law Faculty for the next five months.
Hundreds of ...
Protecting the Right to a Basic Education for Undocumented Learners: An Update from the Legal Resources Centre
(As the current Oxford Human Rights Hub/Rhodes University Travelling Fellow, I’ll be blogging about my experiences at the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) and the Rhodes University Law Faculty for the next five months.)
Day one of the ...
Law and Disability: An Introduction to the Social Model of Disability
“To pay attention to the words we use is not to be “politically correct” but to struggle for a language which describes the denial of our human rights, locates our experience of inequality as a civil rights issue, and, at the same ...
