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		<title>Reflections From the Global South: How the Trump Administration Impacts Trans &#038; Intersex People</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Bonke Sonjani and Mogau Makitla&#160; In commemoration of National Human Rights Day- which took place on the 21st of March 2025, Iranti hosted a panel discussion on How the Trump Administration Affects Trans and Intersex People. We were joined by civil society organisations such as Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW), Parents, Families...]]></description>
		
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		<title>MEET THE TEAM: Matlhogonolo Samsam &#8211; LBQ Rights Officer</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/meet-the-team-matlhogonolo-samsam-lbq-rights-officer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Growing up in Otse in Botswana, Iranti’s new LBQ Rights officer &#8211; Matlhogonolo Samsam, has always had an interest in human rights issues and saw herself growing up to become a diplomat. To her surprise, she found herself working at a rugby club for the first four years of her career. It was only when...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Diary of a proud intersex person</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 04:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  by Dimakatso ‘Garfield’ Sebidi I am unshakable. I am unstoppable. I am God-fearing. And I am proudly intersex.   I was treated differently because I am different. This is because I was born with two genitals. I spent the first six years of my life in and out of Baragwanath –which is now called...]]></description>
		
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		<title>WEBINAR: Eliminating Harmful Practices against and Promoting Human Rights Protection of Intersex People</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/webinar-eliminating-harmful-practices-against-and-promoting-human-rights-protection-of-intersex-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2023 08:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s National Laws and Policies Thematic Group and was held in collaboration with LSVD, the United Nations&#8217; Office of the High Commissioner for Human...]]></description>
		
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		<title>PRESS STATEMENTPRESS STATEMENT FROM A COLLECTIVE OF TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE ORGANISATIONS, IN RESPONSE TO NTSIKI MAZWAI&#8217;S TRANSPHOBIC POSTSPRESS STATEMENT</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/5466-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2023 10:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[PRESS STATEMENT FROM A COLLECTIVE OF TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE ORGANISATIONS, IN RESPONSE TO NTSIKI MAZWAI&#8217;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...]]></description>
		
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		<title>MEET THE TEAM: Botho Maruatona</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/meet-the-team-botho-maruatona/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lesbian, bisexual and queer(LBQ) organising has been on a steady rise for the past two decades with a 2020 report by Astraea and Mama Cash, “Vibrant Yet Under-Resourced: The State of Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Movements”, finding that 89% of LBQ groups had been founded in the last twenty years. Despite the clear and urgent...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Depathologised healthcare crucial for LGBTQIA+ community</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/depathologised-healthcare-crucial-for-lgbtqia-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
		
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		<title>“We still have people gatekeeping our identities”</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/we-still-have-people-gatekeeping-our-identities/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Iranti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2021 12:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
		
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		<title>New Webseries: Road Trip For Change</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/new-webseries-road-trip-for-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2021 07:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In late 2020 and early 2021, members of the Iranti team had the great privilege of traveling across South Africa on a partnership-building and fact-finding mission as part of our ongoing Margins to Mainstream project. The project, which seeks to more effectively document and respond to trans, gender-diverse and intersex rights violations in Gauteng, North...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lives are at stake: LGBTIQ+ sector awaits promised response from Dept of Justice on hate murders</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/lives-are-at-stake-lgbtiq-sector-awaits-promised-response-from-dept-of-justice-on-hate-murders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2021 14:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[MEDIA STATEMENT&#160; 16 May 2021&#160; For immediate release&#160; Lives are at stake: LGBTIQ+ sector awaits promised response from Dept of Justice on hate murders&#160; 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...]]></description>
		
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