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….
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…
Iranti has made tremendous strides in using media as an advocacy tool to strengthen collective visual, audio, and written evidence-based documentation and reporting on lesbian, gender non-conforming, transgender and intersex persons for the advancement of their human rights in Africa. To this end, Iranti has curated an exhibition aimed at showcasing the organisation’s documentation and…
15 April 2021 Iranti supports the LGBTI community of Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape in their quest for justice for murdered Andile Lulu Ntuthela and their efforts to demand a society that values the lives of all people. The remains of Ntuthela were discovered this week in a shallow grave at the house of the…
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…
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