Press ReleaseMarch 19, 2021 As South Africans celebrate Human Rights Day, Iranti is calling for the government to uphold the Convention on the Rights of the Child by ending Intersex Genital Mutilation. The organisation is asking the South African government to review and reform policy by creating legislative and policy frameworks that promote and protect…
On Monday 8 March 2021, Iranti hosted an online press briefing for invited journalists and media houses to outline the proposed Identity Management Policy gazetted by the Department of Home Affairs. The deadline for public submissions to oidmpolicy@dha.org.za had been extended to 15 March, and with the proposal having already garnered significant attention from the…
Iranti is angered at news of yet another violation against the LGBTIQ community – this time the alleged rape and murder of a queer lesbian Nonhlanhla Kunene in Pietermaritzburg. According to reports, Ms Kunene (37) was found murdered near the Edendale Primary school on Friday night. Her funeral is planned for today (THURSDAY). That such…
IRANTI AND PARTNER ORGANISATIONS LAUNCH #NoOneIsOneThing SOCIAL MEDIA AWARENESS CAMPAIGN DURING LGBT(QIA+) HISTORY MONTH DOWNLOAD THE PDF VERSION OF THIS STATEMENT HERE. To commemorate LGBT History Month, on 17 February 2021 Iranti kicks off the next leg of the Safety, Dignity and Freedom (SDF) campaign. The first phase of the 2021 campaign, titled #NoOneIsOneThing, uses…
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….
Download the call for Board Members HERE. Iranti is a Johannesburg based regional non-profit company (NPC) founded in June 2012 to be a media and advocacy platform for lesbian, gender non-conforming, trans and intersex persons and their organisations. In pursuit of its vision and mission Iranti places a high premium on good corporate governance and…
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…
On 26 October 1996, intersex people and allies held a public demonstration as an act against their exclusion from a clinical event in Boston, USA, at the annual conference of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Here they came to demand that the medical industry take notice of their denouncement of infant genital mutilation (IGM), and…
Download a PDF copy of this vacancy below. Iranti is a Johannesburg-based regional non-profit organisation (NPO) that was founded in June 2012 to focus on lesbian, transgender and intersex rights. Our intention is to build local partnerships and movements to advocate for rights and recognition across Africa through the use of multi-media platforms, advocacy and…
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…
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