16 March 2020 Dear Partners of Iranti Over the last two weeks, Iranti has monitored the increase and spread of COVID-19 globally and now in South Africa. In light of it being declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Iranti has decided to put plans in place to best manage the health of…
Iranti is a registered non-profit organisation (NPO), founded in June 2012 to focus on lesbian, transgender and intersex rights across the African continent. We achieve our purpose through advocacy, movement building and multimedia storytelling. We work with an intersectional lens, often with LGBTI-sector partners, across the region and beyond. We have a ten-person team and…
African Trans Network Statement Created for Change, Capacity Strengthening and Movement Support. We are powerful when we stand together Established: 1st February 2020 | Nairobi, Kenya Transgender and gender diverse persons speaking for themselves, united as a collective, generating knowledge and advocating for inclusion across the region has never happened and this has rapidly changed…
[VACANCY] SAFETY, DIGNITY & FREEDOM 2020 MEDIA TRAINING CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR Duration: 10 Month Fixed-term Contract Iranti is a registered non-profit organisation (NPO), founded in June 2012 to focus on lesbian, transgender and intersex rights across the African continent. We achieve our purpose through advocacy, movement building and multi-media storytelling. We work with an intersectional lens,…
Duration: 3 Months (Applicant must be available to start immediately) Iranti is a registered non-profit organisation (NPO), founded in June 2012 to focus on lesbian, transgender and intersex rights across the African continent. We achieve our purpose through advocacy, movement building and multi-media storytelling. We work with an intersectional lens, often with LGBTI-sector partners, across…
S 4 February 2020 – Iranti attended the funeral of Nare Mphela, a fierce activist who fought for her right to education by taking her school and the principal to the Equality Court and subsequently winning that case in 2017. The funeral took place in her home village in GaMahlala where she was also laid…
STATEMENT: GENDER BASED VIOLENCE CONTINUES INTO 2020 Iranti mourns the murders of three queer womxn. 9 January 2020 – Mmmabatho “Madonna” James left her family home for the last time when she went out to buy cigarettes with an acquaintance on 29 November 2019, this was the last time Madonna’s family and friends would see…
The Civil Union Amendment Bill seeks to repeal section 6 of the Civil Union Act. Section 6 of the Civil Union Act provides that “[a] marriage officer…may in writing inform the Minister that he or she objects on the ground of conscience, religion and belief to solemnising a civil union between two persons of the…
Today marks another Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR). TDOR began in 1998 as a campaign to mourn and politicise the death of transgender lives. This year, the 21st commemoration of TDOR, is also deadliest year on record for transgender people worldwide. The TDOR 2019 update has revealed a total of 331 cases of reported killings…
IRANTI PUBLIC CALL FOR 2019 BOARD MEMBERS – FINANCE POSITION: Iranti has a vacancy for a Board Member to serve in the position of Treasurer. Iranti is a registered Non Profit. The Board comprises of seven-member and the Executive Director. Iranti is a Johannesburg based regional non-profit organisation (NPO) founded in June 2012 to focus…
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