Education (Right to)

Mental Disability Advocacy Center presentó ante el Comité Europeo de Derechos Sociales (que juzga el cumplimiento de los Estados de la Carta Social Europea) una demanda para denunciar que los niños que viven en hogares para niños con discapacidades mentales de Bulgaria no reciben educación o, en todo caso, muy poca.

El consorcio Juma Masjid Trust le había permitido a la escuela primaria Juma Musjid, una escuela pública, utilizar su propiedad privada por un período prolongado. La disputa surgió cuando el Departamento de Educación Provincial responsable de la escuela no pagó el alquiler o gastos varios necesarios para el funcionamiento de la escuela, y tampoco respondió adecuadamente a una notificación y otras comunicaciones enviadas por el consorcio solicitando que se evacuara el edificio.

The case was brought by disadvantaged children in need of accommodation and treatment in high support units.  The children asserted that the state was under a constitutional obligation to provide them with special care and appropriate educational facilities.  The state agreed that such facilities were necessary and had begun the planning process for building them.  However the projects suffered many administrative and logistical delays.  A High Court Judge issued a mandatory injunction (an order requiring the performance of a specific act), incorporating the state’s plan and ordering the go

The Juma Masjid Trust had allowed the Juma Musjid Primary School, a public school, to operate on its private property for an extended period of time. A dispute arose when the provincial Department of Education responsible for the school did not pay the Trust for rent or out-of-pocket expenses to run the school, and also did not adequately respond to a notice and other communications from the Trust to vacate the premises. The Trust then sought an eviction order to remove the School from its property.