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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>Press Statement:  Statement on the untimely passing of Imam Muhsin Hendricks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[18 February 2025 We are deeply saddened by the tragic passing of Imam Muhsin Hendricks, who was brutally murdered on Saturday, 15 February, in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The targeted attack on the faith-based leader, highlights growing concerns about violent crimes and the safety of civilians in South Africa. Imam Muhsin Hendricks dedicated his...]]></description>
		
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		<title>US Foreign Aid Halt: Devastating Impact on South Africa’s Healthcare &#038; LGBTQI+ Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Press Statement: 90-Day Halt on US Foreign Aid 29 January 2025 For immediate release We are devastated by the decision made by newly elected President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, to put in place an executive order calling for an immediate 90-day halt on foreign aid. This directly impacts initiatives such as...]]></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>No Cause For Celebration &#8211; Johannesburg Community Vigil</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/no-cause-for-celebration-johannesburg-community-vigil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2021 07:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Nomsa Manzini LGBTI+ activists from across Gauteng gathered at Constitution Hill on Wednesday April 26 to call for #JusticeForQueerSA. People gathered from early in the evening. Iranti Programmes Manager Ntuthuzo Ndzomo said the queer community needed to unite to fight hate crimes. “We must challenge government officials to take a stand on hate crimes,”...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Africa Day marks resistance to state-sponsored homophobia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2021 13:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[May 25, 2021  Africa will not be free until all its people are free and LGBTI persons are allowed to live their lives without fear, says South African-based advocacy organisation Iranti.   “Across the continent we see countries acting against law-abiding citizens because they do not conform to a heteronormative view of the world. Yet perpetrators of gender-based...]]></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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		<title>The LGBTIQ+ Community Comes Together To Say “Enough Is Enough”</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/the-lgbtiq-community-comes-together-to-say-enough-is-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
		
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