Access Chapter 2

Location: South Africa

Focus: LGBTQI and women’s human rights

Website: https://www.facebook.com/AccessChapter2/

Access Chapter 2 (AC2) works to protect and promote the human rights of LGBTQI people, women and girls in South Africa. The organisation seeks to uphold South Africa’s bill of rights, found in Chapter 2 of the country’s Constitution, which guarantees civil, political and socio-economic rights for all. AC2’s vision and mission is built from a women’s and LGBTI centred approach, and seeks to ensure civil society sector’s substantive participation in civil, political and socio-economic rights as enshrined in the bill of rights.

While South Africa’s Constitution is celebrated across the world, gender-based violence, LGBTQI violence and femicide are endemic. Access Chapter 2 are calling for the government to enact the Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill, and to undertake gender and sexuality sensitisation campaigns.

GiveOut’s grant supported their inaugural Advocacy Week in 2019, bringing together a new generation of LGBTQI activists from across South Africa. Through it, they created platforms for networking, information and knowledge sharing, building the capacity of activists through high-level engagement with stakeholders in the fields of law, social and political science, creative arts, psychology, economics, and healthcare.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Access Chapter 2 have been working on the frontlines to ensure that LGBTQI people are not forgotten. In 2021, GiveOut’s grant will continue supporting Access Chapter 2’s core costs as they strive for the empowerment and liberation of the LGBTQI community, women and girls, and civil society in South Africa.

GiveOut is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (Registered Charity Number 1176434).