Education rights

In Schneider v. Plymouth State College, the plaintiff was a student at Plymouth State College. The plaintiff took a course with a professor, had a positive experience and ultimately majored in the subject of the class. The professor became the plaintiff’s academic advisor. Subsequently, the professor began to sexually harass the plaintiff. When the plaintiff refused the professor’s advances, he grew angry and threatened to make her life very difficult. He withheld academic support for her and ridiculed her in front of faculty.

Judgment STL6682-2023 M.A.E.P. and her parents v. Cooperative University of Colombia and L.A.M.R., Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia (2023)

Case No: 102867

Judgment T-420/92 on the right to education and fundamental rights, Constitutional Court of Colombia (1992)

South Dakota Codified Laws § 13-67-1 requires all interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic teams sponsored by schools or organizations under the Board of Regents or the Board of Technical Education to be designated according to biological sex, as shown on a student’s birth certificate. Teams must be designated as female, male, or coeducational/mixed, and only female students based on biological sex may participate in any female-designated sports.

Human Rights Watch report on women's rights issues and challenges during governmental conflicts. 

A report by the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School, Women and Law in Southern Africa-Zambia, and the Cornell Law School International Human Rights Clinic examining the problem of sexual violence against girls in school in Zambia.

Virginia’s Human Rights Act outlines the policy of the Commonwealth to “[s]afeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, or disability, in places of public accommodation,” including in education, real estate, and employment.

In July 2010, W.J. and L.N, 12- and 13-year-old female students at Jamhuri Primary School, were invited to the home of their teacher, Astarikoh Henry Amkoah. Amkoah forced the girls to perform household chores and later attempted to defile W.J. in the restroom and defiled L.N. in the hall. On several occasions later that month, Amkoah raped both girls. The girls’ education was severely interrupted by the trauma of Amkoah’s attacks and L.N. dropped out of school completely. Ultimately, Amkoah was acquitted in criminal court. In this suit filed by their guardians, W.J. and L.N.

In West Virginia v. B.P.J., 609 U.S. __ (2026), the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed the constitutionality of laws determining eligibility for gender-segregated sports based on biological sex assigned at birth. The decision in B.P.J. was combined with the case Little v.

Law on Gender Equality in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2003), as amended.