“Education must be protected from the forces of privatisation... Education is not a privilege of the rich and well to do; it is an inalienable right of every child” said today Kishore Singh, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education during the presentation of his report to the UN General Assembly.

Right to Education Project's partners the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) and the Ghana Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) have released the following press statement:

On Wednesday 24th September the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) published its written recommendations on Morocco. The Committee made statements on the pace and lack of regulation of privatisation of education and recommended the government of Morocco take immediate action to assess and address the consequences of the rapid development of private education actors.

The South African Human Rights Commission has released a report on an investigation it conducted on scholar transport and found that the Eastern Cape Education and Transport Departments violated pupils' right to basic education by failing to provide them with transport to school. 

The Commission found that physical accessibility of schools is an integral part of the right to education and the failure to provide subsidised transportation is also counter to the best interests of the child.