PRESS STATEMENT | Gauteng High Court orders water reconnection to building housing twenty-three NGOs

SECTION27, representing the Children’s Memorial Institute, reached a settlement with Johannesburg Water and the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality to reconnect the water supply to the property situated at 13 Joubert Street, Parktown.

SUBMISSIONS | The digitalisation of birth registration in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Children's Rights

SECTION27 has made submissions to the Office of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, in response to the Special Rapporteur’s call for inputs on the Digitalisation of Birth Registration in Africa: Challenges and opportunities for children’s rights.

PRESS STATEMENT | Constitutional Court paves the way for greater access to reading materials for persons with disabilities in landmark Copyright ruling

SECTION27 welcomes the Constitutional Court’s unanimous order handed down yesterday in Blind SA v President of the Republic of South Africa, declaring that section 19D of the Copyright Amendment Bill be read into the Copyright Act 97 of 1978 with immediate effect until the CAB is brought into law.

PUBLICATION | Basic Education rights handbook

The Basic Education Rights Handbook is a legal literacy tool that serves to empower communities, school governing bodies, principals, teachers and learners to understand education law and policy, to know when learners’ rights have been violated and what steps are required to protect learners’ rights.

SECTION27 uses the law through litigation, advocacy, legal literacy, research and community mobilisation to advance socio-economic rights, in particular the right to access health care services and the right to basic education.

16 July 2025, Johannesburg – SECTION27, representing the Children’s Memorial Institute (CMI), reached a settlement with Johannesburg Water and the…
10 July 2025, Johannesburg – 10 July 2025 marks exactly one year since Judge Mmonoa Teffo handed down the Life…
27 May 2025, Johannesburg – On 28 and 29 May 2025, the National Department of Health will convene a national Mental…

Publications

Climate-proofing children‘s right to access Healthcare Services and their right to Basic Education

Opportunities and constraints in integrating Climate Justice in Health and Basic Education using an advocacy agenda

2024 Year in Review

Effective Remedies in Socio-Economic Rights Litigation

Contraceptive Supply Chain: Stockouts and their Causes

Climate Change As a Human Rights Risk

WDA

PRESS STATEMENT | Gauteng High Court orders water reconnection to building housing twenty-three NGOs

PRESS STATEMENT | Life Esidimeni one year on – justice delayed is justice denied

Celebrate Alice Brown’s 13 Years of Leadership at SECTION27!

SUBMISSIONS | The digitalisation of birth registration in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Children's Rights

SUBMISSIONS | Submissions on the National Health Insurance regulations on governance

S27 STORIES | An undocumented South African mother’s fight to get her newborn registered

OP-ED | Lessons in overcoming barriers in climate justice advocacy

S27 STORIES | Dignity restored: One Limpopo School’s Long Wait for Safe Sanitation Comes to an End

PRESS STATEMENT | Constitutional Court paves the way for greater access to reading materials for persons with disabilities in landmark Copyright ruling

OP-ED | Poor infrastructure imperils KZN pupils’ right to education amid climate catastrophes

PUBLICATION | Someone Hurt Me

OP-ED | How education and support can break the cycle and combat teenage pregnancy in South Africa

PUBLICATION | Basic Education rights handbook

Focus Areas

SECTION27 uses the law through litigation, advocacy, legal literacy, research and community mobilisation to advance socio-economic rights, in particular the right to access health care services and the right to basic education.

Press Room

Publications

Climate-proofing children‘s right to access Healthcare Services and their right to Basic Education

Opportunities and constraints in integrating Climate Justice in Health and Basic Education using an advocacy agenda

2024 Year in Review

Effective Remedies in Socio-Economic Rights Litigation

Contraceptive Supply Chain: Stockouts and their Causes

Climate Change As a Human Rights Risk

PRESS STATEMENT | Gauteng High Court orders water reconnection to building housing twenty-three NGOs

PRESS STATEMENT | Life Esidimeni one year on – justice delayed is justice denied

Celebrate Alice Brown’s 13 Years of Leadership at SECTION27!

SUBMISSIONS | The digitalisation of birth registration in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Children's Rights

SUBMISSIONS | Submissions on the National Health Insurance regulations on governance

S27 STORIES | An undocumented South African mother’s fight to get her newborn registered

OP-ED | Lessons in overcoming barriers in climate justice advocacy

S27 STORIES | Dignity restored: One Limpopo School’s Long Wait for Safe Sanitation Comes to an End

PRESS STATEMENT | Constitutional Court paves the way for greater access to reading materials for persons with disabilities in landmark Copyright ruling

OP-ED | Poor infrastructure imperils KZN pupils’ right to education amid climate catastrophes

PUBLICATION | Someone Hurt Me

OP-ED | How education and support can break the cycle and combat teenage pregnancy in South Africa

PUBLICATION | Basic Education rights handbook

Focus Areas

SECTION27 uses the law through litigation, advocacy, legal literacy, research and community mobilisation to advance socio-economic rights, in particular the right to access health care services and the right to basic education.

Press Room

Publications

Climate-proofing children‘s right to access Healthcare Services and their right to Basic Education

Opportunities and constraints in integrating Climate Justice in Health and Basic Education using an advocacy agenda

2024 Year in Review

Effective Remedies in Socio-Economic Rights Litigation

Contraceptive Supply Chain: Stockouts and their Causes

Climate Change As a Human Rights Risk

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