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		<title>MEET THE TEAM: Matlhogonolo Samsam &#8211; LBQ Rights Officer</title>
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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>MEET THE TEAM: Botho Maruatona</title>
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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>“We still have people gatekeeping our identities”</title>
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		<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>Lives are at stake: LGBTIQ+ sector awaits promised response from Dept of Justice on hate murders</title>
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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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		<title>Letter Of Invitation From Iranti To Engage With Podcast And Chill With MacG</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2021 11:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 27 January 2021 Dear Macgyver “MacG” Mukwevho and Sol Phenduka Iranti – a Johannesburg based organisation dedicated to defending the rights of transgender persons, and the rights of the LGBTIQ+ community as a whole are concerned by the transphobic comments you have made during episode 220 of Podcast and Chill with MacG....]]></description>
		
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		<title>THERE IS POWER IN THE COLLAR: Iranti film screening at JFF!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 19 November 2020 IRANTI FEATURE FILM TRACKING THE DECRIMINIALISATION OF HOMOSEXUALITY IN BOTSWANA SCREENS AT JFF Download the original copy of this press statement here. Iranti, a Johannesburg-based LGBT media-advocacy organization, will debut its first feature film, There Is Power In The Collar, at the Joburg Film Festival this November. The premiere...]]></description>
		
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		<title>2020’s anti-queer hate crimes continue unchecked</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Iranti notes with grave concern news reports released in September of the murder of a 14-year-old lesbian girl in Mpumalanga, Zinhle Sekgoapa. Initially kidnapped and held to ransom Sekgoapa was later found dead near a pit-latrine. Her family and the local LGBTQIA+ community are only the latest to be devastated by a wave of homophobic...]]></description>
		
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		<title>IRANTI AND ISSA STATEMENT ON CASTER SEMENYA</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/iranti-and-issa-statement-on-caster-semenya/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2020 13:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Download a PDF for this statement here. [JOINT STATEMENT] SWISS COURT UPHOLDS DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES AGAINST CASTER SEMENYA It is with deep sadness and anger that Iranti and Intersex South Africa (ISSA) note the decision by the Federal Court Tribunal in Switzerland to uphold a policy of discrimination against South African athlete, Caster Semenya. Last year,...]]></description>
		
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		<title>[STATEMENT]  How can Womxn be celebrated while we are still being murdered?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[STATEMENT]&#160; How can Womxn be celebrated while we are still being murdered? 10 August 2020 &#8211; Womxn’s Month in 2020 is still not a cause for celebration given the high rates of violence, murder and abuse of womxn &#8211; especially that of Black, trans, lesbian and gender diverse persons.&#160; But it is a month to...]]></description>
		
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		<title>IRANTI AND PARTNER ORGANISATIONS LAUNCHES SAFETY, DIGNITY, AND FREEDOM STUDY AND MEDIA GUIDE</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/safety-dignity-and-freedom-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On 5 November 2019, Iranti launched the Safety, Dignity, and Freedom (SDF) research report that combines a baseline survey of existing mainstream media coverage of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI+) with focus-group discussions to understand the experiences of LGBTI+ individuals and their interactions with mainstream media in each of the five countries....]]></description>
		
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