The Violations On The Right Of Education By The State Of...

INTRODUCTION This paper will focus on the violations on the Right to Education by the State of Mourinholand under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as well as its violations under various other universal and regional instruments, the various modes and conditions for bringing complaints of violations to the council and committee will further be discussed here. The International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Right was adopted and opened for signature by the General Assembly of the United Nations on the 16th of December, 1966 to give members of a state party a right to self-determination. The covenant contains the right to Education, Health, and Cultural Life etc. The Right to Education was first discussed under article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 . This right constitutes the first ever recognition of a general right in an international instrument in explicit terms. Article 26 has subsequently been reaffirmed and made more detailed by articles 13 and 14 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, article 13 (3) (a) of the Additional Protocol to the America Convention on Human Rights in the area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and article 17 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples rights . Asbjorn Eider propounded the theory that State Parties to the Covenant are b ound to Respect, Protect and Fulfill all the rights enshrined in the ICESCR. By respecting the