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Education is the most powerful weapon that can be used to change the world. These noble words by Nelson Mandela provide a yardstick against which South Africa can measure whether the rights of the child, key of which is the right to education, are progressively being realised. Towards this end, education is seen as the ultimate foundation and solution for the attainment of freedom, democracy and human rights; social justice and equality for South African children. Thus, the question remains: after more than twenty years of democracy, to what extent can South Africa pride herself of having achieved this noble goal? This article reflects on the national effort to realise the rights of children to education against the frameworks provided for in international and regional instruments. The latter require governments’ commitment to ensure that the rights of children to education in particular, are implemented and respected. An analysis will be made on how the new democratic government has succeeded to reverse the discriminatory policies, law and practice of the apartheid era. It further discusses how the existing education system translates the attainment of children rights to education in terms of the standard and quality of teaching and learning; existing school facilities; racial segregation; human and financial resources; and safe school learning environment. The article concludes by identifying measures that need to be taken by all stakeholders in order to promote the realisation of children’s right to education.

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Enforcing fundamental human rights is a constitutional obligation of the Russian Federation. In the digital age, the risks of human rights violations are increasing, making it increasingly relevant to implement a consistent state policy related specifically to data processing in public administration. The objective of this paper is to analyze the scientific and methodological approaches to enforcing fundamental human rights in data processing in public administration and the possibilities for consideration of human rights in the Russian public administration. The subject of the study includes scientific publications, court cases, international and national laws and regulations, including foreign countries. The study uses formal legal and historical legal methods, comparative legal method, method of legal interpretation, logical analysis, general scientific methods of classification and modeling. The results of the study are an analytical review of foreign and Russian scientific and methodological approaches to enforcing fundamental human rights in data processing in digital public administration; systematization of the basic legal grounds for enforcing fundamental human rights in data processing in public administration; the proposals for legal enforcement of fundamental human rights in data processing in the Russian public administration. The study allows drawing conclusions about the lack of attention in the Russian doctrine and practice to the issue of fundamental rights. Since Russian legislation in this area is based on the European model, the implementation of European approaches to data protection is recommended. It is necessary to create special legislation on data processing in public administration, to define the criteria for proper data processing and data storage, to differentiate the types of data collection and data processing, to ensure transparency. Based on advanced digital technologies, data processing rules in the public sector should be stricter and more transparent than in the private sector. The scientific novelty of the research is determined by insufficient regulation of data processing in public administration, where the constitutional function of enforcement and protection of fundamental human rights is not sufficiently regulated. Based on the results of the study, recommendations are to use the findings in the formation of an appropriate state policy to enforce fundamental human rights in data processing in the Russian public administration

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This article discusses an important challenge for Internet governance: the difficulties entailed in articulating the multiplicity of scenarios and contexts that shape it. A “multistakeholder” approach has been posited often as the most suitable path to build Internet governance. However, materializing this approach is difficult because of the possible actors and situations found on the Web. Instead, and building on the notion of cosmopolitanism (Boczkowski & Siles, 2014), this article proposes an alternative framework for studying Internet policymaking. It applies this framework to the Digital Privacy and Security Statement advanced by the Global Commission on Internet Governance in order to show how it can help further our understanding of Human Rights in the digital era. It argues that cosmopolitanism can offer a method that helps to transform a complex network of interactions into a map characterized by different objectives and relations in order to generate more dialectic Internet policies.

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Nowadays none country in the world has developed a holistic regulatory approach to regulation of artificial intelligence use. Meanwhile, in the digital landscape the risks of human rights violations are increasing, which is gained newfound relevance of the need to simultaneous development of legal protection of human rights in mastery of technology and artificial intelligence capabilities by public administration. In this regard the objectives of this paper are to analyze the current state of legal regulation of AI use in public administration and to formulate of proposals for legal groundwork for preventing and overcoming the risks of human rights violations due to the use of AI in public administration. As a part of the study scientific publications on this topic, international and national laws and regulations, including foreign countries have been analyzed. The main results of the preprint are the results of the analysis of the state of legal regulation of AI use in public administration; the results of the analysis of potential risks of human rights violations due to the use of AI in public administration; the author's systematization of the risks of human rights violations due to the use of AI in public administration, as varied the institutional system of rights protection; the proposals for legal means to prevent and overcome the risks of human rights violations due to the use of AI in public administration. The study allows for the conclusion about the lack of attention to the human rights aspect in forecasting, regulating and using of AI in public administration as well as the necessity to design a system of legal means to prevent and overcome the risks of human rights violations due to the use of AI in public administration. The lack of proper regulation of AI use in public administration, which involves the risks of human rights violations, determines the scientific novelty and potential practical significance of the study brought to attention of readers. The author's concept involves the promotion of a human-centered approach to the use of artificial intelligence technology in public administration. Its findings and results can be taken into account and used for the formulation and state policy implementation in ensuring human rights due to the use of AI in the Russian public administration.