CONSTITUTIONAL COURT JUDGMENT ON COPYRIGHT ACT A MOMENTOUS VICTORY FOR PERSONS WHO ARE BLIND AND THEIR ACCESS TO BOOKS BLIND SA and SECTION27 celebrate historical judgment, which finds the Copyright Act unconstitutional for unfairly discriminating against persons with visual disabilities, ending the Book Famine! 21 September 2022, Johannesburg – BLIND Continue Reading
MEDIA ADVISORY: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT TO DELIVER JUDGMENT IN BLIND SA CASE ABOUT COPYRIGHT ON WEDNESDAY 21 SEPT 2022 Constitutional Court to determine whether Copyright Act is unconstitutional for violating the rights of persons with visual disabilities. 20 September 2022, Johannesburg — The Constitutional Court will tomorrow deliver judgment in the Continue Reading
SECTION27 recognises the importance of the Presidential Climate Commission (PCC), established by President Cyril Ramaphosa, as a critical independent, statutory and multistakeholder body in the response to the climate crisis. SECTION27 welcomes the opportunity to have made submissions on the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) presentation. Although the draft Investment Continue Reading
14 September 2022, Johannesburg – Today, SECTION27 launches its second edition of the Basic Education Rights Handbook online. The Handbook serves as a legal literacy tool to empower various stakeholders in the education sector, including school governing bodies, principals, teachers, learners and communities. It is a valuable resource for understanding Continue Reading
SECTION27 in partnership with The Children’s Radio Foundation hosted a four-day workshop where 15 learners were trained on radio production and sexual and reproductive health rights. The learners were all girls from Xinmunwana High School and Edward Homu Secondary School in Limpopo. In the four days, learners were taught different Continue Reading
5 September 2022, Johannesburg – Senior officials from the Gauteng Department of Health (GDOH) who were implicated in transferring mental healthcare patients out of Life Esidimeni into unprepared and unlicensed NGOs in 2016 are scheduled to testify at the Inquest from today, 5 September 2022. Dr Makgabo Manamela, who was the Continue Reading
PRESS RELEASE CONTRACEPTIVES ARE MOST COMMON MEDICINE STOCKOUT AT PUBLIC HEALTH FACILITIES IN 2022, STOP STOCKOUTS PROJECT RESEARCH FINDS Research findings indicate that many women and girls cannot access the contraceptives that they need, which places their sexual and reproductive health in jeopardy 30 August 2022, Johannesburg — At the Continue Reading
Contraceptive stockouts negatively inpact women and girls more deeply. As a result, for #WomensMonth 2022, the Stop Stockouts Project (SSP) invites you to attend a hybrid launch of a new research report entitled “Stop Stockouts Project: Access to contraceptives in South African public health clinics between April and June 2022.”
By Gertrude Quan, Isabel Magaya and Mila Harding Should the Department of Basic Education pass this amendment, it will not only be failing its legal obligation to protect learners from the dangers of alcohol abuse, but it will be proactively assisting in the promotion of underage drinking. “What is more important Continue Reading
In the wake of the pandemic, a proposed new law to reduce school dropout is still falling short. By Mila Harding and Merle Mansfield.
For Women’s Month 2022, the Stop Stockouts Project launches new research entitled “Access to contraceptives in South African public health clinics between April and June 2022.”
10 August 2022 – SECTION27 was in court in the case of Thubakgale v Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality where we intervened as amicus curiae (a friend of the court) in the case. We made written submissions to the court that “where violations of socio-economic rights have caused harm, as in this Continue Reading
