“This is something central to a woman’s life, to her dignity. It’s a decision that she must make for herself. And when government controls that decision for her, she’s being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg -Ruth Bader Ginsburg Continue Reading
“When he appeared for us, he did not do so as a man who is appearing for strangers, he did so as his contribution to a great cause to which we were all committed.” Nelson Mandela said of George Bizos, who passed away on Wednesday 9 September 2020. In the Continue Reading
SECTION27’s Week Ahead: 31 August – 4 September 2020 “Fighting the good fights starts with foregrounding values that matter and then having the empathy that gets adversaries even to change their minds. Human rights lawyer Faranaaz Veriava strives to hit this mark.” Ufrieda Ho, in an article about SECTION27 head of education Continue Reading
“It has become trite to describe the injustices and devastation experienced across the world and yet it is vitally important that we engage with the condition the world is in if we are to heal better.” United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres’s Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture 2020 speech. Many businesses have Continue Reading
The Week Ahead (17 – 21 August 2020) “We must refine and adapt our methods for a new context with new challenges. Litigation as a last resort is a mainstay of public interest lawyering in South Africa, and the principle is as applicable as ever in relation to budgeting and Continue Reading
3 – 7 July 2020 “We believe in, and are creating, a future informed by an intersectional sexual and reproductive justice perspective. Equality, dignity and bodily integrity to inform services, information and resources and options that are provided to all including marginalised sexual and gender identities.” Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng (known as Continue Reading
“If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.” – John Robert Lewis John Robert Lewis was an American politician and civil-rights leader. Many businesses have returned to work with the easing of the lockdown from level Continue Reading
The week ahead: 20 – 24 July 2020 “The essence of this matter aptly can be captured as: “For now I ask no more than the justice of eating.” Judge Potterill (quoting Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner, Pablo Neruda), in her judgment on the Equal Education and others v. Continue Reading
13 – 17 July 2020 “The next UNAIDS strategy must address head-on the areas where we are still lagging, like combination prevention and human rights of key populations, and address the multiple vulnerabilities of adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa.” UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima, at the opening Continue Reading
The week ahead: 6 – 10 July 2020 “Nothing is more undignified than starvation, particularly the starvation of a child…Dignity plays a very important residual role in informing the content of the right to basic education.” Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi SC in the hearing of Equal Education and others v. The Continue Reading
“Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories…”― Amilcar Cabral Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral was one of Africa’s foremost anti-colonial leaders Many businesses have returned to work with the easing of Continue Reading
“I had to get a job doing gardening to earn some money to buy food. My sister and I do not have enough food at home. Without the meals from school, I could not concentrate on schoolwork because I was hungry.” – Matric learner, Limpopo SECTION27 is representing Equal Education Continue Reading