Human rights in Namibia are currently recognised and protected by the Namibian constitution formed in 1990 by a 72-seat assembly. The assembly consisted...

Onsedelike Praktyke, 1980). In August 2016, the United Nations Human Rights Committee released a report in Windhoek, Namibia's capital city, calling on the...

were about 11,000 prostitutes in Namibia. Human trafficking, child prostitution and HIV/AIDS remain serious issues in the country. Prostitution takes...

national human rights institution (NHRI) is an independent state-based institution with the responsibility to broadly protect and promote human rights in a given...

Contributing to the establishment of human rights system in Africa are the United Nations, international law and the African Union which have positively...

Events in the year 2024 in Namibia. President: Hage Geingob (until his death on 4 Feb); Acting: Nangolo Mbumba Vice President: Nangolo Mbumba Prime Minister:...

Namibia (/nəˈmɪbiə/ , /næˈ-/), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares...

"All victims of human rights abuses should be able to look to the Human Rights Council as a forum and a springboard for action." — Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General...

moral principles and human rights. In the early 2000s it was reported that senior church officials and pastors in Namibia are involved in mismanagement of...

Telecommunications in Namibia include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet. Per 1,000 inhabitants, there were 50 TV sets and...

constitutional monarchy. The Human Rights Scores Dataverse ranked Japan somewhere in the middle among G7 countries on its human rights performance, below Germany...

Improves Human Rights in Namibia - Skemman" (PDF). Skemman. May 8, 2008. Ashipala et al., "The development of a dictionary of Namibian Sign Language", in Erting...

European Court of Human Rights”, the courts shall apply case-law as indicated as a source of law. The first appearance of the term “Namibia exception” is...

HIV/AIDS in Namibia is a critical public health issue. HIV has been the leading cause of death in Namibia since 1996, but its prevalence has dropped by...

protest again, this time in Opuwo, against the ongoing human rights violations that they endure in Namibia. They expressed their frustration over their chief...

Human rights in Rwanda have been violated on a grand scale. The greatest violation is the Rwandan genocide of Tutsi in 1994. The post-genocide government...

The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a treaty body composed of 18 experts, established by a 1966 human rights treaty, the International Covenant...

was established in 1989 on the eve of Namibia's independence from South Africa. Sister Namibia advocates for women's rights and engages in activities that...

Human rights education (HRE) is the learning process that seeks to build up knowledge, values, and proficiency in the rights that each person is entitled...

Rehoboth Baster Community) et al. v. Namibia (No. 760/1997) (2000) was a case decided by the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Representatives of the...

Human rights in Libya is the record of human rights upheld and violated in various stages of Libya's history. The Kingdom of Libya, from 1951 to 1969,...

Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The National Society for Human Rights of Namibia called for the ending of relations in 2002 due to "the persistent denial, by the State...

Human rights in Eritrea are viewed, as of the 2020s, by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) such as Human Rights Watch as among the worst in the world...

The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (also known as the Banjul Charter) is an international human rights instrument that is intended to promote...

of Namibia is a member of: Law of Namibia Cannabis in Namibia Constitution of Namibia Crime in Namibia Human rights in Namibia LGBT rights in Namibia Law...

"Political Rights" has slipped from 4 to 7, and "Civil Liberties" from 2 to 5. Political parties have been banned in Eswatini since 1973. A 2011 Human Rights Watch...

Namibia is a country of origin, transit, and destination for foreign and Namibian women and children, and possibly for men subjected to trafficking in...

Human rights in Nigeria are protected under the current constitution of 1999. While Nigeria has made major improvements in human rights under this constitution...

protest again, this time in Opuwo, against the ongoing human rights violations that they endure in Namibia. They expressed their frustration over the lack of...

Human rights in South Africa are protected under the constitution. The 1998 Human Rights report by Myles Nadioo noted that the government generally respected...