This handbook represents a landmark for overcoming these barriers and making the right to education a reality. It has been developed by UNESCO and the Right to Education Initiative (RTE), and serves as a definitive reference point for those seeking to understand and advance that right.
The handbook was developed to assist all stakeholders who have a crucial role to play in the promotion and implementation of the right to education. This includes: State officials, to ensure that education policies and practices are better aligned with human rights.
To respond to the challenges, UNESCO and the Right to Education Initiative (RTE) have developed this handbook to guide action on ensuring full compliance with the right to education. Its objective is not to present the right to education as an abstract, conceptual, or purely legal concept, but rather to be action-oriented.
747 Ibid. However, the salient feature of the right to education in respect to accountability is that it can be legally enforced by judicial mechanisms, provided the state in question has domestically implemented the right to education by incorporating it within the domestic legal order.