OSI Grantee Launches Website on Right to Education

The Right to Education Project has launched its new website, marking the 60th anniversary of Article 26 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The Right to Education Project has been supported by the Open Society Institute Education Support Program since the beginning of 2008, with the aim of continuing the groundbreaking work of former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education Katarina Tomasevski.

Jointly steered by ActionAid International and the Global Campaign for Education, in partnership with, among others, Amnesty International, the Right to Education Project aims to promote social mobilization and legal accountability. The cornerstone of the project is an up-to-date and wide-reaching website on education rights: a definitive one-stop location for everything you need to know and an initial point of support for anyone seeking legal or mobilization advice.

The website (www.right-to-education.org) provides country-specific information; accessible explanations of states’ legal obligations; a country database of constitutional guarantees, education laws and policies; national and international case law; and country-specific observations from the United Nations and regional human rights monitoring bodies. The website is a place for seeking knowledge and sharing experiences and they welcome any contributions or suggestions from practitioners and experts. The project will continue to add new features and to updates throughout the coming months.

To ensure continued relevance and engagement with activists and the academic community, the project undertakes comparative research to advance an understanding of the right to education. Initial research efforts involve indicators on the right to education, to form the basis of a human rights impact assessment tool. This research will evolve throughout 2009, and the website will include major developments.