International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) is an important day in the calendar year. On the 17th of May 1990, the World Health Organisation declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder, removing it from the Classification of Diseases. This was an incredible milestone. Unfortunately, in 2023, the queer community continues to face extreme and…
National Gender Diversity Coalition Press Statement As the National Gender Diversity Coalition in South Africa, we are calling upon the South African Government to show up as a leader in the fight for human rights for ALL people; and denounce the inhumane anti-LGBTQI+ law passed by the Ugandan Parliament. Date: 28 March 2023 To: The…
PRESS RELEASE FEBRUARY 6TH, 2023. We want President Cyril Ramaphosa to acknowledge and address the LGBTQIA+ community in his State of the Nation Address. This year, President Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on 9 February 2023. The SONA sets out Government’s key policy objectives and deliverables for the year ahead,…
PRESS STATEMENT FROM A COLLECTIVE OF TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE ORGANISATIONS, IN RESPONSE TO NTSIKI MAZWAI’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…
Over the last while, Iranti has been making bold and important moves to further intersex rights on the African continent, and across the globe. During September 2022, our Intersex Rights Officer, Crystal Hendricks, had the opportunity to meet with Permanent Missions in Geneva for Uruguay, Canada, Australia, Finland, and the Netherlands. During the meetings, she…
Since March this year, Iranti partnered with the Department of Home Affairs to do Road Trips around the country to assist transgender and intersex persons by bringing name change and gender marker change services directly to the community. Although the South African laws such as the Alternation of Sex Description and Sex Status Act (Act…
Iranti was invited to the Regional High Level Convening and presented on the lived experiences of queer persons and communities on the African continent, as well as the advocacy and litigation strategies being explored to further LGBTIQ rights and protections in the region. The convening was hosted by the Network of African National Human Rights…
Our acting Co-ED, Jade Jacobs-Wort, attended the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Advocacy Week hosted by ILGA World and COC Netherlands. This was the first in-person UPR Advocacy Week in over two years and we are excited to be a part of it. At this Advocacy Week, we had the opportunity to attend the pre-info sessions…
On the 9th and 10th of August 2022, Iranti commemorated South African Women’s Day with ARTivists and creatives from Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia in an effort to reshape and rethink commemoration days such as this that have historically been binary and heteronormative despite the intersectionality of the political reasons they were founded….
Iranti’s LBQ work in the region focuses on the advocacy needs and strategies to support people who continue to suffer in their specific countries due to stigma, discrimination, and violence against their communities. We carefully and strategically consider our programmatic rollout based on these needs. With our regional team, comprised of staff from the representing three…
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