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WEBINAR: Eliminating Harmful Practices against and Promoting Human Rights Protection of Intersex People

On September 12th, the Equal Rights Coalition (ERC) organised a significant webinar titled Eliminating Harmful Practices against and Promoting Human Rights Protection of Intersex People. This event was part of the ERC’s National Laws and Policies Thematic Group and was held in collaboration with LSVD, the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human…

PRESS STATEMENTPRESS STATEMENT FROM A COLLECTIVE OF TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE ORGANISATIONS, IN RESPONSE TO NTSIKI MAZWAI’S TRANSPHOBIC POSTSPRESS STATEMENT

PRESS STATEMENT FROM A COLLECTIVE OF TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE ORGANISATIONS, IN RESPONSE TO NTSIKI MAZWAI’S TRANSPHOBIC POSTS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 18 JANUARY 2023 . On the 16th of January 2023, Ntsiki Mazwai published a problematic and hurtful tweet asserting the harmful and ungrounded view that women’s rights are threatened by trans rights. She wrote…

Depathologised healthcare crucial for LGBTQIA+ community

Violence, institutionalised discrimination and unequal healthcare are just some of the issues the LGBTQIA+ community continuously has to fight. Iranti Executive Director Jabu Pereira points out that building our community in a hostile environment is often difficult. “We are either fighting the medical world and changing their hearts and minds and now we have this…

“We still have people gatekeeping our identities”

By Welcome Mandla Lishivha Has the Constitution fulfilled its promise of dignity for all? This was the question posed at a “We The People Round Table Series” hosted by Constitution Hill and the Nelson Mandela Foundation on 21 May 2021 on Zoom. The discussion took place twenty-five years after the South African Constitution came into…

Lives are at stake: LGBTIQ+ sector awaits promised response from Dept of Justice on hate murders

MEDIA STATEMENT  16 May 2021  For immediate release  Lives are at stake: LGBTIQ+ sector awaits promised response from Dept of Justice on hate murders  On 5 May, civil society organisations (CSOs) from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex (LGBTIQ+) sector met online with the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Ronald Lamola, and other members…

The LGBTIQ+ Community Comes Together To Say “Enough Is Enough”

Iranti joined representatives of civil society stakeholders in Gauteng on Wednesday to host a press conference highlighting the brutal Hate Crimes witnessed across the country in recent weeks. Iranti, Out LGBT, GALA, FEW, and The Other Foundation met media at Constitutional Hill to call on the government and police to take serious action against the…