#PODCAST IRR: Poorer LGBT people don't enjoy the same human rights protection as their more affluent counterparts #sabcnews

By Newsbreak Senior Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - Poorer members of the LGBT community do not enjoy the same constitutional protection of their human rights- compared to their more affluent counterparts. That's the findings of the Institute for Race Relations (IRR). Their report titled "An In-Depth Look into the Quality of Life of LGBT South Africans" shows that LGBT members of lower income communities suffer abuse and prejudice from key state institutions like the police and public schools. Author of the report, Gerbrandt van Heerden says this is a failing of the South African legal system- because the laws that exist for the LGBT community are constantly broken...