The Child's Right to Education in International Human Rights System

The Child’s right to education is enshrined in various international human rights instruments such as ICCPR, ICESCR and CRC. The state obligations in the realization of the right to education and the rights andobligations of parents to the child on on this right, is discussed in these instruments and the relevant interpretations. This right is regarded as a transversal right having many individual, social and collective dimensions. Children, their parents and educational institutions are holders of this rightand the state, parents and international community as a whole are respective duty-bearers. These complicated aspects of the right have madeit very controversial both in theory and in practice. This paper, investigates international standards governing the right and the challenges to it. For this purpose, we firstly study the definition and legal nature of the right to education as a human right. Then, the content of the right and respective roles of the state, parents and teachers in determining its content, and finally, performance of the right and relative principles and parent involvement in the school governance are discussed.