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Mobilisation – India

You can’t do it alone! Whether at local, regional or national level, mobilising for the right to education must be a team effort by all civil society actors. Only then can one hope to effect change and bring the government to live up to its legal obligation to respect, protect and fulfil the rights of its citizens. So join forces with the national coalitions on education, NGOs, networks of human rights lawyers, teacher unions and international partners.

Please see our links below and use the resources and pages highlighted. 

Please visit our pages on social mobilisation(link) to learn more about strategies for change.

Or see our section on addressing violations(link) to see how and when to build a campaign around legal action.

Using international law and the UN to tell the real story. How civil society must shadow report on the government, to the:

Universal Periodic Review (link)

UN Committees on human rights (link)

UN Special Rapporteurs (link)

Regional human rights bodies (link)

Who is mobilising for education rights in your country:

 

 

India Alliance for Child Rights Children's Right to Education: Measuring investments and outcomes in India 13/09/2007

HAQ: Centre for Child Rights BfC India's Financial Commitment to the Child 26/07/2007

 Delhi Court hears first petition on right to education 06/04/2010
On the first day of the new amendment to the Indian Constitution, securing the right to education, the Delhi's High Court heard its first petition on the right to education. The Court ordered a private school to readmit a class 6 student who had been expelled because she had failed exams. 
Dissent over children's education bill