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June 26
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Namibia: Swapo Youth League Gets a Spanking [analysis]
Namibia's ruling party, SWAPO, has always vehemently denied divisions in its ranks. But recently things came to a head when the top leadership and the Youth League clashed over... Read more »
June 11
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Namibia: Police to End Invasions of San Land [analysis]
Sometimes it pays for communities to cry out in desperation. It has certainly paid off for the !Kung in Namibia's western Tsumkwe region, who issued a desperate plea last week for... Read more »
June 07
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Namibia: Land Grabs Threaten San in Namibia [analysis]
Just weeks after a critical UN report on the status of indigenous people in Namibia, the scale of the government's failure to promote and protect their rights has been highlighted... Read more »
May 27
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Namibia: Who Will Guard Namibia's Guardians? [analysis]
Namibian journalists have reason to be concerned. While Namibia was once again ranked as the top African country in this year's Press Freedom Index, various parts of the... Read more »
May 04
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Namibia: Tough Times for LGBTI in Namibia Too [analysis]
One thing is for sure. It is still not easy to be gay in Africa. Even against the background of growing acceptance and acknowledgement of human rights across the continent, the... Read more »
May 03
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Namibia: Govt Still Failing Indigenous Peoples [analysis]
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples', Professor James Anaya, has just released the official report from his historic mission to Namibia in September 2012... Read more »
October 19, 2012
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Namibia: New Law Endangers Democracy [analysis]
No one could accuse Namibia's leading human rights institution, the Legal Assistance Centre (LAC), of being sensationalist. So when it warns that the Namibian government is poised... Read more »
September 20, 2012
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Namibia: Spotlight On Indigenous Rights in Namibia [analysis]
The San are Namibia’s most marginalised and excluded people but for the next week they will, finally, be in the international spotlight – as the UN Special Rapporteur... Read more »
September 10, 2012
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Namibia: Adult Education in Namibia and Swaziland [opinion]
In 2011, the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) conducted a research study in five countries - Angola, Namibia, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland - to draw an... Read more »
August 31, 2012
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Namibia: Major Boost for San Rights Campaign in Namibia [analysis]
The fight for the rights of the indigenous San people in Namibia has just received a major boost with the formation of the San Support Organisations' Association of Namibia... Read more »
August 27, 2012
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Namibia: Boost for Access to Information in Namibia [analysis]
The campaign for greater access to information in Namibia received a major boost last week with the hosting of a successful conference in Windhoek. Read more »
July 30, 2012
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Namibia: They Took My Choice Away
In a landmark judgment, the High Court in Windhoek has ruled that the Namibian government had coercively sterilised three HIV positive women in violation of their basic rights... Read more »
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Africa: Govt Coercively Sterilised HIV+ Women [analysis]
In a landmark judgment, the High Court in Windhoek found today that the Namibian government had coercively sterilised three HIV positive women in violation of their basic rights. Read more »
June 25, 2012
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Namibia: Major Award for Namibian Conservation [analysis]
The awarding of the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC) Markhor Award for outstanding conservation performance to the Namibian Ministry of Environment... Read more »
June 20, 2012
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Namibia: Rethinking Indigenous Education [analysis]
The statistics relating to San children in Namibia and education are shocking. Only 67 percent of San children in the country enrol in school. And only 1 percent of those children... Read more »
April 20, 2012
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Namibia: The Power of South Africa's Bad Example [opinion]
The ruling party of Namibia, SWAPO, rounded on the state-owned media this week for a perceived lack of patriotism and failure to adhere to the SWAPO Manifesto. Senior ruling party... Read more »
February 28, 2012
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Namibia: Indigenous Coalition Opposed to New Dam [analysis]
If the Namibian government thought it had enough on its hands after indigenous Himba leaders issued a powerful statement listing a host of human rights violations and calling on... Read more »
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Namibia: Indigenous Himba Take Fight to the UN [analysis]
The Namibian government can usually ignore the demands of indigenous groups - safe in the knowledge that their voices will seldom be heard. And even if they are that the groups are... Read more »
February 23, 2012
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Namibia: Tribal Powder Keg [analysis]
The ripples caused by the 'tribalist' remarks made by a Namibian Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister are spreading - a clear sign that, despite the usual calm surface,... Read more »
February 24, 2012
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Africa: Should Stop Teaching in English? [analysis]
At Independence, Namibia chose English as its main natitional language although it had no history of English as a colonial language and few citizens who spoke it as their first... Read more »
February 07, 2012
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Namibia: Himba Village Yet to See Fruits of Independence [analysis]
Namibia, in common with neighboring Botswana, is often lauded as an example of a country which has successfully negotiated the perils of post-independent statehood to take its... Read more »
November 16, 2011
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Namibia: Funds for HIV/Aids Running Dry
Namibia has one of the highest rates of HIV and AIDS in the world and has enjoyed generous and critical donor support for its efforts to tackle the pandemic. But no longer.... Read more »
November 08, 2011
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Namibia: Bones of Contention [analysis]
In October, the skulls of a few of the Namibian victims of the 1904-1908 German colonial genocide were finally returned home. To some it represents the symbolic closure of a tragic... Read more »
September 06, 2011
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Namibia: Time to End Forced Sterilisation [analysis]
The World Medical Association (WMA) and the International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisations (IFHHRO) have condemned the practice of forced and coerced... Read more »
August 01, 2011
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Namibia: Namibia Women's Health Network [analysis]
Namibia Women's Health Network (NWHN) is a organisation of women living with HIV created by 14 women that participated in the Parliamentarians for Women's Health project in 2005 to... Read more »
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