Tag: Namibia
2024 LGBTQ rights update: Progress and reversals in Africa
In this article, LGBTQ rights journalist Rob Salerno, an editor for RightsAfrica and Erasing 76 Crimes, surveys the 2024 status of same-sex marriage a [...]
Joy in Namibia as court decriminalizes gay sex
This article originally appeared on Rob Salerno's LGBT Global Newsletter, a free email newsletter charting progress on LGBT rights around the worl [...]
Legal challenges to anti-LGBTQ laws are under way in at least 10 nations
Legal challenges to anti-LGBTQ laws are under way in Africa and in the Caribbean. In the map above, which shows the 66 nations with anti-homosexua [...]
Namibian officials balk at Supreme Court’s approval of foreign same-sex marriage
Home Affairs minister says he's awaiting further instructions after the Supreme Court ruled that Namibia must recognize the marriage of Guillermo Delg [...]
Namibia High Court rules against same-sex couples
A High Court in Namibia has ruled against two same-sex couples who were seeking to have their foreign marriages recognized for immigration purposes, c [...]
Namibia Pride seeks repeal of nation’s anti-LGBTQ law
The LGBTQ community in the southern African nation of Namibia recently held its biggest-ever Pride celebration, which included appeals for the repeal [...]
Report: Covid-19 threatens LGBTIQ+ Africans and their organisations
Covid-19 has hurt LGBTIQ+ communities in east and southern Africa while also revealing weaknesses in the region's LGBTIQ+ advocacy organisations, acco [...]
Namibia court bans anti-gay discrimination in child citizenship case
A Namibian court has found that the constitution bans discrimination based on sexual orientation, in a case that also found that the two-year-old chil [...]
Namibia justice minister announces plan to decriminalize gay sex this year
Namibian Justice Minister Yvonne Dausab has announced that scrapping the criminal prohibition on same-sex intimacy is among 31 pieces of legislation d [...]
UPDATE: Namibian government allows gay man’s infant daughters to come home
UPDATE May 19, 2021:
The Namibian government has issued travel documents to the twin infant daughters of a binational gay couple who were born in S [...]
Namibia denies residency to infant daughters of gay citizen
A Namibian court ruled Monday against a gay couple demanding the right to bring their infant daughters home after being born to a surrogate in South A [...]
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