GI-ESCR and partners present the Abidjan Principles on the right to education to judges in Lesotho

As part of an ongoing collaboration with the International Commission of Jurists, GI-ESCR presented today the history and content of the Abidjan Principles on the right to education to a dozen of judges in Lesotho. The discussion took place online and was introduced by Chief Justice Sakoane Sakoane.

As it was the case as a previous workshop organised for the South African judiciay, the presentation 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.