Iranti welcomes the recent ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) which confirmed that Caster Semenya has not only experienced unfair discrimination but has also been failed by the Swiss legal system in her fight for elite athletes’ right to bodily autonomy and dignity. Semenya approached the ECHR to appeal a 2020 Swiss…
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…
The Equal Rights Coalition is a global coalition of 42 countries dedicated to the protection and promotion of LGBTI people’s human rights development. Since its inception in 2016, the coalition has attempted to involve UN agencies and LGBTI civil society organisations from around the world in its programs to protect the human rights of LGBTI…
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….
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