In Limpopo, a poor rural province in northern South Africa, there is a ongoing education crisis. Many schools do not have access to key components of the right to basic education, such as toilets, drinking water, desks, paper, chalk and even classrooms, to ensure a conducive learning environment.

Human Rights Watch has just published a new report on Senegal's Quranic Schools where children live in unsafe conditions or are exploited by teachers, who force them to beg and inflict severe punishment when the boys fail to return a set quota of money.

Human Rights Watch releases today a report on child marriage in Malawi, ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8.

The report, I’ve Never Experienced Happiness’: Child Marriage in Malawi, documents how child marriage prevents girls and women from participating in all spheres of life. It also highlights how the practice violates the right to education. Indeed, child marriage often interrupts girls’ education or denies them access altogether.

As education is subject to increasing privatisation, a human rights analysis of the processes and impacts has remained largely neglected. The Right to Education Project publishes a new report - Privatisation of Education: Global Trends of Human Rights Impacts, together with a factsheet and a training module, to increase awareness of the issues surrounding the privatisation of education, from a much needed human rights perspective.

Privatization of education in Morocco breaches human rights says the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in a recent report submitted to the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

The Centre for Disability Law and Policy (NUI Galway), in association with the Institute for Human Rights and Critical Studies (KU Leuven) organise a conference on Article 24, UNCRPD is this a Brown v Board of Education moment? on 22 February 2014 in Galway, Ireland.

On 26th of January 2014, Tunisia adopted a new Constitution that guarantees the right to education in articles 38 and 46. This is an important step because the 1959 Constitution did not guarantee the right to education.

Costa Rica has become the 10th country to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure, meaning that it will take effect in three months.

ActionAid has published a new report on Stop Violence Against Girls in School: A cross-country analysis of change in Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique.