Justiciability & Litigation

South Africa is in the unique posi­tion of hav­ing the right to edu­ca­tion guar­an­teed in the Con­sti­tu­tion.

This publication includes an overview of key right to education decisions made by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, the African Committee of Experts on t

The Guide identifies equality and non-discrimination strategies that NGOs, lawyers and activists ma

This Guide will inspire and help judges and lawyers working at national level to litigate cases involving economic, social and cultural rights.

This publication is intended to support everybody that works in the basic education field in South Africa. It aims to provide a common legally grounded planning, monitoring and advocacy framew

This issue of the INTERIGHTS Bulletin focuses on litigating the right to education in Africa. It includes the following articles:

The following articles relevant to the justiciability of the right to education can be found in this INTERIGHTS Bulletin:

This article considers the question of the justiciability of social and economic rights from both a conceptual and an experiential perspective.

This article critically evaluates case-law developments regarding the right to basic education as enshrined in the South African Constitution and argues that litigation, or at the least the threat