GI-ESCR presented the history and content of the Abidjan Principles on the right to education at an event organised by the International Commission of Jurists to share the latest developments on the right to education with High Court judges in South Africa.

The discussion aimed at raising awareness about the various tools that judges can use to address right to education cases. These include the Abidjan Principles on the human rights obligations of States to provide public education and to regulate private involvement in education that were adopted in February 2019 by a group of 57 of the most qualitied experts on the right to education, and have since been recognised by the main regional and international human rights bodies.

The Abidjan Principles can support a range of actors to monitor and implement the right to education. They can assist judges in their legal reasoning in court cases, as already exemplified in a judgement on education public-private partenrships in Uganda.