{"id":33561,"date":"2021-10-26T14:19:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T14:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=33561"},"modified":"2021-10-28T14:20:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T14:20:47","slug":"namibia-precedent-for-same-sex-couples-rights-of-children-in-citizenship-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/namibia-precedent-for-same-sex-couples-rights-of-children-in-citizenship-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Precedent for Same-Sex Couples, Rights of Children in Citizenship Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite class=\"byline\">By Arlana Shikongo<\/cite><\/p>\n<div class=\"story-body\">\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">THE Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) says a recent High Court judgement confirming the Namibian citizenship by descent of a child born through surrogacy to a same-sex couple is progressive and demonstrates that the courts are taking cognisance of children&#8217;s rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">&#8220;Protection of the child, we can see now, that that&#8217;s paramount and that&#8217;s a major step. It&#8217;s a whole new ball game,&#8221; LAC director Toni Hancox told The Namibian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Hancox said it has also brought the aspect of parenting for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) community to the fore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Furthermore, she said this is the first time an issue of this nature has been before the courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">&#8220;Even though the L\u00fchl matter was about citizenship, it has really brought parenting for the LGBTQI+ community into the limelight. It&#8217;s something that we&#8217;ll start talking about,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p data-para-word-count=\"29\">Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/106686\/read\/Precedent-for-same-sex-couples-rights-of-children-in-citizenship-ruling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/106686\/read\/Precedent-for-same-sex-couples-rights-of-children-in-citizenship-ruling<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Arlana Shikongo THE Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) says a recent High Court judgement confirming the Namibian citizenship by descent of a child born through surrogacy to a same-sex couple is progressive and demonstrates that the courts are taking cognisance of children&#8217;s rights. &#8220;Protection of the child, we can see now, that that&#8217;s paramount and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-namibia","type-news-articles","item-year-676","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-gender"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33566,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33561\/revisions\/33566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}