In South Africa, SECTION27 has used rights-based strategies, including litigation, to hold the state accountable for not ensuring the procurement and delivery of textbooks to schools across Limpopo, a poor rural area of the country.
NEW HANDBOOK on The Right to Education published by Amnesty International's Special Programme on Africa in collaboration with the Right to Education Project
The right to education has been recognised in a number of international and regional legal instruments: treaties (conventions, covenants, charters) and also in soft law, such as: general comments, recommendations, declarations, and frameworks for action.