About us
The Right to Education Project aims to promote social mobilisation and legal accountability, looking to focus on the legal challenges to the right to education.
The cornerstone of the Project is this wide-reaching website on education rights, a partial continuation of the groundbreaking website (under the same address) of the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Katarina Tomaševski.
To ensure continued relevance and engagement with activists and the academic community the Project also undertakes comparative research to advance an understanding of the right to education.
Housed by ActionAid International, and in partnership with the Global Campaign for Education and Amnesty International, the Right to Education Project is supported by the Open Society Institute and others.
The Project is advised by a distinctive Advisory Panel of leading scholars, human rights activists and education campaigners, all serving in their personal capacity: Amina Ibrahim, Anupam Ahuja, Camilla Croso, Christian Courtis, Christopher Colclough, Colm Ó Cuanacháin, Duncan Wilson, Ignacio Saiz, John Packer, Nevena Vučković-Šahović, Penina Mlama, Salim Vally, and Sheldon Shaeffer.
A Steering Committee is responsible for the implementation of the Project: Akanksha A. Marphatia, Angela Melchiorre, David Archer, Lucia Fry, Meghna Abraham and Peter Hyll-Larsen.
Project coordinator: Peter Hyll-Larsen
Research coordinator: Angela Melchiorre
Administrative support: Egi Summers
Project support, research and web: Maria Ron-Balsera
Thanks to: Samira Ibrahim, Archana Sinha, Kate Newman, Ben Spier, Gabriela Quevedo, Satu Kanninen, and Suzie Wright, and especially to Rastko Lazic and Miki Rsumovic for a longstanding commitment to the website.
We warmly welcome any contributions or suggestions from practitioners, affected groups and experts.
Contact us: info@right-to-education.org
