Economic and social inequality, as well as conflict, are major obstacles to ensuring universal education, said Benavot, but the international community also has to get smarter about aligning funds with need.
Instead, the institute voted in October to disavow the structure it had created "in light of the current intractable institutional and structural obstacles to ensuring a minimally adequate system for administering capital punishment".
And the prestigious American Law Institute, which devised the framework for the modern system of capital punishment, recently abandoned the whole project "in light of the current intractable institutional and structural obstacles to ensuring a minimally adequate system for administering capital punishment".
Among the obstacles to ensuring students from disadvantaged backgrounds succeeded were difficulties in recruiting staff for schools in the most challenging areas and constant changes to the exam system, he said.
The Institute did not decide formally to oppose the death penalty as some of its members apparently wanted, but in a statement last October conceded there are "intractable institutional and structural obstacles to ensuring a minimally adequate system for administering capital punishment".
We aimed to give voice to how healthcare workers in two East African hospitals identify and explain the major obstacles to ensuring the safety of patients in their care.
In this article, we give voice to how healthcare workers in two East African hospitals identify and explain the major obstacles to ensuring the safety of patients in their care, and reflect on the insights their views offer for targeting improvement efforts in diverse contexts.
We must get the public to smile when they think of Yellow Cab and the way to that goal is to be more welcoming and responsive by making an extra effort, no matter the obstacles, to ensure that this happens".
The story tells of how she and her family are overcoming obstacles to ensure Saratu goes to school.
