Anchoring government actions on human rights
Friday, November 14, 2025 | 10 Views |
The education sector is one of the actors that should particularly provide leadership in the process of transformation. This is crucial considering that our society emerged from a background where the right to education of children with special education needs was trampled upon.
The human-centred approach is here to close all the loopholes and remedy injustices perpetrated against the most fragile section of our population - the learners with special education needs. The plight of children with disabilities deserves special focus and attention. More resources should be devoted to unearthing the hidden talents and treasures that this special group of children is endowed with.
“Injustice anywhere is a threatto justice everywhere.”— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.We listened, and we want very much to believe him, but our belief will not be secured by fine speeches; it will be secured only by action.For far too long, there has been a suspicion amongst ordinary Batswana that the law has two faces; one for the ordinary man and woman struggling to make ends meet, and another, gentler face for the well-connected and the...