Sitting on the sandy beach front on Mombasa’s public beach, Saida stares into the vast blue horizon while she fidgets with her fingers. She’s twenty-two, slender, and her demeanour is shy. This is her favourite place to come to when she wants to think about her life. “I come here a lot. Especially when there…
As a media documentations organization, over the past four months Iranti has received an alarming number of cases of hate crimes in the Gauteng province. The Eastrand and the Vaal region have been mostly affected. Iranti is currently following up and reporting on 1 murder case of Pascalina Malemu in the Vaal, 1 murder case…
In January, 2015 Daniel, a 22-year-old living in Ntungamo in Western Uganda, was arrested for “engaging in crimes against the order of nature.” We spoke to him in May after he was released from prison. Struggling to find words, he told us what happened. Read More…
Today, the South African (SA) government presented its state report to the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) during the latter’s 58th Ordinary Session in Banjul, the Gambia, 6-20 April 2016. We noted with concern that the SA state report neglected to address widespread human rights challenges faced by transgender and intersex persons…
SA Government Silent on Transgender and Intersex Rights South Africa, 11 April 2016 Today, the South African (SA) government presented its state report to the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) during the latter’s 58th Ordinary Session in Banjul, the Gambia, 6-20 April 2016. We noted with concern that the SA State report…
Article by Wanelisa Albert, Advocacy Coordinator, Iranti “I worked very hard for Pasca to finish her school but it was all for nothing,” says Betty Melamu (while holding her daughter’s matric certificate) on a BBC podcast reporting on LGBTI hate crimes in South Africa. Pascalina Melamu is a lesbian woman who was brutally murdered in…
In 2014, transgender woman Nadia Swanepoel went on a hunger strike to protest discriminatory treatment at the hands of the Department of Home Affairs after the process to change her name and her gender marker on her identity document in terms of the Alteration of Sex Description and Sex Status Act 49 of 2003 (Act…
Article By BBC and Iranti Iranti assisted the BBC in producing this important story on increased hate crimes in South Africa. Listen to the podcast
The silence is deafening: Increasing violence on LGBTI Youth in South African Townships Leverne Cox believes “Justice is what love looks like in public.” And yet almost on a weekly basis Iranti deals with yet another LGBTI young person who has been either expelled from school or worse; brutally murdered. There is a deafening silence…
Botswana, 16 March 2016 Ground-breaking Judgment by Botswana Court of Appeal on Freedom of Association and LGBTI Rights. A full bench of the Court of Appeal of Botswana ordered the Botswana government to register the organisation Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana (LEGABIBO). Click here for more detail…
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