The TAC and ALP became active in the issues of refugees and asylum seekers with the outbreak of xenophobia in South Africa in 2008.

The right to health is central to SECTION27's activism to improve socio-economic conditions that undermine human dignity and development, prevent the poor from reaching their potential and lead to the spread of disease that has a disproportionate impact on the vulnerable. Continuing with the work of the AIDS Law Project, which was incorporated into SECTION27 in 2010, the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDs remain significant focus of the NGO. The inventory below highlights issues foregrounded by ALP and SECTION27, often in collaboration with its close ally, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).

Publications, conference papers, reports not produced by SECTION27, ALP and TAC.

Increased public investment in health-related socio-economic rights such as sufficient food, and its appropriate regulation is a SECTION27 focus. SECTION27 motivates for better utilisation of legal action and human rights advocacy to achieve rights to food. Accountability in the food industry and the availability of food to all, in particular children, who are granted the constitutional right not just to access to food but to basic nutrition, are major goals.

This section includes all issues that do not fall into the priority areas of Education, Health, Refugees and Right to Food with which the entities covered in this archive have been associated. The subject matter in this section is wide ranging and covers causes in which SECTION27, the TAC and ALP engaged in activism. It also includes notebooks and presentations by members of staff.

The access to basic education and its appropriate regulation has been identified as an area of focus of SECTION27. This section deals with matters of concern to both the AIDS Law Project and later SECTION27.