ABSTRACT
The right to education – on the basis of equality of opportunity – is one of the formal and legally binding human rights set down in various declarations and legal conventions. The foundation for the right to education was embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, and then subsequently in the European Convention on Human Rights in 1954, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959 and the International Convenant on Civil and Economic Rights in 1966.
