South African Judge Lays Down the Law on the Right to a Basic Education
In previous posts, Chris McConnachie has documented the rise and the successes of South Africa’s emerging education adequacy movement. In this post he analyses the movement’s most recent victory in...
Ready to Learn?
South Africa’s Legal Resources Centre (LRC) launched a new book—Ready to Learn? A Legal Resource for Realising the Right to Education—on 25 October at the Open Society Foundations in New...
Cultivating a Common Bond: The Right to Adequate Education in South Africa and the United States
As the newest wave of education adequacy litigation crashes upon the shores of South Africa, courts there face the enormous task of breathing life into a socio-economic right that is...
Children of a Lesser God: Food Politics in India
The tragic loss of 23 children who ate contaminated food at a government-run primary school in the East-Indian state of Bihar, near Patna, speaks volumes about the continued policy paralysis...
Corporal Punishment in Namibia Revisited
In the landmark 1991 judgement of the Namibian Supreme Court in Ex Parte: Attorney-General, In Re Corporal punishment by Organs of State, Berker CJ remarked in a separate judgement, that...
Denying Education is Denying Survival: the Case of the Nasa People
Colombia has a modern constitutional system that recognizes and protects the ethnic and cultural diversity that characterizes the country. This protection is enhanced through integration into the constitution of human...
Denied Education is Denied Survival: The Case of The Nasa People
By Ethel Castellanos-Morales and Camilo Castillo-Sánchez – Colombia is a country with a modern constitutional system that allows it to recognize its different ethnic groups and protect the diversity that...
Education suspended, rights infringed
By Jadine Johnson – On Monday, March 25th, ninety-seven students at Leflore High School in Mobile, Alabama were suspended. These students were not suspended for drugs or weapons. They were...
Horizontal Application of the Right to Education in India
A Full Bench of the Supreme Court of India delivered the long awaited judgment on the constitutionality of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 (RTE...
Public Duties and Private Schools: the Indian Supreme Court’s Landmark Ruling
Problems of affordability and access have perennially plagued the Indian educational system. State-run schools, while affordable, have suffered from a severe absence of quality in every respect; and private schools...
The Rise of South Africa’s Education Adequacy Movement
This week we feature news on recent education rights litigation in South Africa and India. In this piece, Chris McConnachie discusses the emergence of the education adequacy movement in South...
The Rise of South Africa's Education Adequacy Movement
This week we feature news on recent education rights litigation in South Africa and India. In this piece, Chris McConnachie discusses the emergence of the education adequacy movement in South...
