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…
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…
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 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…
Download a PDF of this statement here 25 August 2020 – Leading Human Rights organisations have urged President Cyril Ramaphosa to sign off on the Civil Union Amendment Bill that affords same-sex or same-gender couples the right to be married by any state-employed marriage officer and magistrate they so choose. South Africa became the fifth…
Download a PDF copy of this vacancy here. 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…
Download a PDF of this statement here. Iranti, Gender DynamiX and TREAT, as members of SATF and in partnership with Frontline AIDS, have published a desktop survey into the experiences of Southern African trans-led advocacy groups during the 2020 COVID-19 viral pandemic, assessing challenges to programmes and advocacy work across the region. We thank the…
© 2024 Iranti. All Right Reserved.