Rights and obligations

Rights and obligations

Human rights comes with obligations: the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights reaffirmed that States are duty-bound to ensure that education is aimed at strengthening the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms and the ICESCR and other international treaties guarantees that the right to education will be exercised without discrimination of any kind. There is also a clear obligation on the part of the international community to support the right to education, as interpreted by the committee to the ICESCR (who are the authoritative body, charged with monitoring legislation related to the covenant). Finally, if free primary education, which meets the 4 As standards, exists there are obligations on the part of parents and guardians to ensure that their children are in school.