Has the Right to Education a Future Within the United Nations? A Behind-the-Scenes Account by the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education 1998-2004
This model is based on the following set of suppositions:– the Aboriginal school should be bilingual;– Aboriginal people are traditionally tied to their land and therefore students are reluctant to leave their local community for further education;– Communities in Australia will become self-managing, self-sufficient, and will determine their own future;– education of Aboriginal children will prepare them for their rightful position in their Community in relation to the above;– the Aboriginal attitude to education is different from that of the European Australian, and schools should cater for their needs as seen in the Community and not through the eyes of middle-class non-Aborigines;– Aboriginal people have the right to education on the basis of the United Nations Charter, Article 26:
This article provides a brief study of the constitutional protection of the right to life in Africa. This entails looking at the provisions on the right to life contained in various constitutions of African States, as well as jurisprudence on the matter of the right to life, and a comparison with the relevant international standards (United Nations and African Union). This article is based on a clinical group led by Prof Christof Heyns, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. The focus of the clinical group was issues surrounding the right to life as envisaged in his mandate.
This chapter discusses the right to education and human rights education in international human rights law. It covers access to education; the nature of education; academic freedom; the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the right to education; achieving universal education on human rights; teaching non-discrimination; and the United Nations Decade of Human Rights Education.
This chapter discusses the right to education and human rights education in international human rights law. It covers access to education, the nature of education, academic freedom, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, achieving universal education on human rights, teaching non-discrimination, and the United Nations Decade of Human Rights Education.
A COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE RIGHT TO LIFE IN AFRICA
