Civil Society, Human Rights Activists Condemn Ugandan Police Attack on Lawful LGBTI Pride Celebration. On 4 August, pride celebrations were brutally and unlawfully raided by the Ugandan police, starting at approximately 11:30 pm. Police claimed they had been told a “gay wedding” was taking place. The police locked the gates of the club, arrested more…
Many individuals with hypospadias do not experience the functional and/or psychosocial difficulties commonly attributed to it by the medical sector, nor desire surgery for it. In addition, hypospadias surgery carries a substantial risk of significantly poor cosmetic and functional outcomes, negatively impacting sexual and reproductive health. Dr Kabo Ijane describes even mild these instances in…
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…
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
On January 2, 2016, Ken Msonda, the spokesperson of the People’s Party, wrote on his facebook page, LGBT people are worse than dogs and Malawians should kill them. CEDEP, CHRR and the Malawi Law Society charged Msonda for breaking Malawi’s constitutional law. In this media report they speak about this fight against hate towards LGBT…
Pascalina Melamu’s tortured and burnt body leaves a scar in the minds of all lesbians in South Africa, but in particular the Vaal lesbian community who knew her so well. She is gone, killed before she could celebrate the passing of high school. Listen to the podcast Despite clear legal protections and a very progressive…
Passing your matric is a major highlight in every young learner in South Africa. Doubly so for Black learners in townships who face major social and economic challenges. For LGBTI learners, ‘coming out’ in South African public school often means exposing oneself to bullying and teacher prejudice. The education system is failing to support learners…
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