SECTION27 is a well-established and widely respected public interest law centre that seeks to achieve substantive equality and social justice in South Africa. If you are passionate about human rights, self-motivated and would like to be part of a dynamic team working to challenge inequality and positively influence society, joining Continue Reading
21 July 2023, Johannesburg – SECTION27 is delighted to announce the appointment of Ms Sasha Stevenson as the next Executive Director. Sasha joined the organisation in 2012 as an attorney and was later promoted to Head of the Health Rights Programme, a position she held since 2018. Sasha assumed the Continue Reading
SECTION27 and BLIND SA have raised concerns about the severe lack of reading material available to individuals who are blind and visually impaired in South Africa. This situation infringes upon their constitutional rights to basic education, equality, dignity, freedom of expression, and the right to participate in their preferred cultural life. Fortunately, South Africa’s ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled (“Marrakesh VIP Treaty”) presents a significant opportunity for improvement.
4 July 2023 – In April 2023, the Gauteng High Court upheld the right of all pregnant and lactating women, and children under 6, irrespective of nationality and documentation status, to access free health services at all public health establishments, including hospitals. This ruling followed an application brought by SECTION27 alongside women who Continue Reading
In April 2023, SECTION27 welcomed the Court order confirming that all pregnant and lactating women and children under 6 must be provided with free healthcare services at public hospitals. Along with our partner organisations, SECTION27 has campaigned for the right to access healthcare services for all persons in South Continue Reading
27 June 2023, Johannesburg – Today, SECTION27, Blind SA and other activists and civil society organisations will march in Pretoria to urge the South African government to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons who are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled. The Treaty Continue Reading
SECTION27 is a well-established and widely respected public interest law centre that seeks to achieve substantive equality and social justice in South Africa. If you are passionate about human rights, self-motivated and would like to be part of a dynamic team working to challenge inequality and positively influence society, joining Continue Reading
20 June 2023, Johannesburg – SECTION27 and Blind SA invite the media to a march on 27 June in Pretoria to urge the South African government to ratify the ‘Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons who are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled Persons’. The Treaty Continue Reading
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change
30 May 2023, Johannesburg – SECTION27 on behalf of the Centre for Child Law (CCL) and two parents are partially appealing a High Court’s judgment in the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), following the actions of two violent teachers who meted out corporal punishment against two primary school learners in Continue Reading
28 May 2023, Johannesburg — SECTION27 launched a successful urgent application on behalf of a pregnant minor who was denied access to termination of pregnancy (TOP) services at a primary public healthcare facility in Gauteng. The minor made multiple attempts to access these services, in accordance with her rights under Continue Reading
10 May 2023, Johannesburg – In what could be a groundbreaking case for affordable access to medicines in South Africa, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Southern Africa, both represented by SECTION27, have filed papers in the Pretoria High Court to intervene as amici curiae (friends of the court) in a compulsory Continue Reading
