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.”
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.”
SECTION27 represents the Teddy Bear Clinic for Abused Children and the parents of two learners who were sexually assaulted while at school in an upcoming court hearing.
In South Africa, Sexual Reproductive Health Rights are enshrined in section 27 of the Constitution, which states that “everyone has the right to access health care services, including reproductive health care”. Sexual Reproductive Health Rights encompass an important group of human rights and include the right to define your sexuality; Continue Reading
Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng UN Special Rapporteur 31 July 2020 Dear Dr Mofokeng RE: CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR APPOINTMENT SECTION27 and partners would like to congratulate you on your appointment as the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Health. Your appointment by the Human Rights Council is in addition to your roles as Continue Reading
Letter to Minister for Health re: protecting safe access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services during COVID-19 17 April 2020 Dear Minister Mkhize, RE: PROTECTING SAFE ACCESS TO SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES DURING COVID-19 South Africa began its national lockdown on 27 March 2020 to slow the spread Continue Reading
SECTION27 and the Treatment Action Campaign have developed a pamphlet listing the facilities that offer termination of pregnancy services in Gauteng Province. Gauteng Abortion Services Pamphlet
Press Statement: SECTION27 and Sonke Gender Justice Deeply Concerned with Alabama Abortion Act and US Restrictions on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Civil society organisations SECTION27 and Sonke Gender Justice are deeply concerned by the recent signing of the “Alabama Human Life Protection Act”, the most recent law in a Continue Reading
SECTION27 celebrated She Decides Day on 2 March 2019
4 March 2019 Statement from SECTION27 Men’s forum re: Wodumo Assault. SECTION27’s Men’s Forum was established in November 2018 following waves relating to sexual harassment and violence in civil society and the continuous and prevalent violence against women and children in our society. The Forum consists of the organisation’s Continue Reading
SECTION27 stands in solidarity with the #TotalShutdownthat aims to highlight and eradicate the alarmingly high incidence of Gender Based Violence in South Africa. We will be participating in the various planned acts of solidarity
It is imperative that students and staff are made fully aware of the policies in place to protect them and even more important that the members of the offices and task forces set up specifically to manage sexual violence are clear on what those policies are and how to adequately put them into practice.