SECTION27 calls for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all. COVID-19 vaccines, which have been developed using public money and trialled on volunteers across the world, should not be used to enrich pharmaceutical companies and executives. They should not be hoarded by wealthy nations at the expense of low and Continue Reading
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release 18 October 2018 – Johannesburg United Nations Committee finds government austerity measures in health, education and other public services “may further worsen inequalities” and calls for policy to be reassessed Following its first review of South Africa, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Continue Reading
South Africa risks continued failures to fulfil its human rights obligations to people if the government’s austerity policy is maintained, civil society organisations have warned at the United Nations Committee on Economic
Johannesburg / New York, 10/01/2018— SECTION27, the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ), and the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) argue in a submission to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights…