African Bodies Breaking Grounds Building Bridges was the theme for the Pan African IlGA Regional Conference that took place in Johannesburg from 13-18 May 2016. This conference meant that emerging trans focused organizations had an opportunity to network with bigger organizations to share experiences, get advice and guidance. Small organizations engaged with possible donors and…
Steve Letsike, the director of Access Chapter 2, is a local and international LGBTI activist who has worked closely with the South African Government around constitutional reform and gender justice. In light of the Latin American Core Group (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay) which has recently tabled the SOGI resolution at the UN…
Iranti is producing a web series on trans lives. We are looking for 12 writers to be part of our core writing team. We are striving to have a series truly owned by the community from conceptualization, and therefore are restricting this call to African trans applicants. Download the Call for Applications for more Info…
Sitting on the sandy beach front on Mombasa’s public beach, Saida stares into the vast blue horizon while she fidgets with her fingers. She’s twenty-two, slender, and her demeanour is shy. This is her favourite place to come to when she wants to think about her life. “I come here a lot. Especially when there…
As a media documentations organization, over the past four months Iranti has received an alarming number of cases of hate crimes in the Gauteng province. The Eastrand and the Vaal region have been mostly affected. Iranti is currently following up and reporting on 1 murder case of Pascalina Malemu in the Vaal, 1 murder case…
In January, 2015 Daniel, a 22-year-old living in Ntungamo in Western Uganda, was arrested for “engaging in crimes against the order of nature.” We spoke to him in May after he was released from prison. Struggling to find words, he told us what happened. Read More…
Today, the South African (SA) government presented its state report to the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) during the latter’s 58th Ordinary Session in Banjul, the Gambia, 6-20 April 2016. We noted with concern that the SA state report neglected to address widespread human rights challenges faced by transgender and intersex persons…
SA Government Silent on Transgender and Intersex Rights South Africa, 11 April 2016 Today, the South African (SA) government presented its state report to the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) during the latter’s 58th Ordinary Session in Banjul, the Gambia, 6-20 April 2016. We noted with concern that the SA State report…
Article by Wanelisa Albert, Advocacy Coordinator, Iranti “I worked very hard for Pasca to finish her school but it was all for nothing,” says Betty Melamu (while holding her daughter’s matric certificate) on a BBC podcast reporting on LGBTI hate crimes in South Africa. Pascalina Melamu is a lesbian woman who was brutally murdered in…
In 2014, transgender woman Nadia Swanepoel went on a hunger strike to protest discriminatory treatment at the hands of the Department of Home Affairs after the process to change her name and her gender marker on her identity document in terms of the Alteration of Sex Description and Sex Status Act 49 of 2003 (Act…
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