Human Rights Commission joins court fight over EC children's right to education

The South African Human Rights Commission was today admitted as a ‘friend of the court’ in a ground-breaking constitutional legal case seeking to give undocumented children access to basic education.

The Centre for Child Law is taking on the national and Eastern Cape basic education departments and the national department of Home Affairs in the Grahamstown High Court in Makhanda over laws which inhibit undocumented children from accessing basic education in South Africa. The CCL says these regulations and laws constitute an unjustifiable limitation on children’s constitutional right to access basic education as well as their right to equality and dignity...

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