{"id":38381,"date":"2023-05-16T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=38381"},"modified":"2023-05-16T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:45:12","slug":"namibia-recognises-same-sex-marriages-concluded-abroad-with-foreign-spouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/namibia-recognises-same-sex-marriages-concluded-abroad-with-foreign-spouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia recognises same-sex marriages concluded abroad with foreign spouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINDHOEK &#8211; Namibia&#8217;s Supreme Court on Tuesday recognised same-sex marriages contracted abroad between citizens and foreign spouses, a landmark ruling in a country where homosexuality is illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The decision overturns a ruling reached last year by the High Court, which refused to accept same-sex marriages concluded outside Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>Two Namibian nationals had sought recourse from the courts after the ministry of home affairs and immigration refused to grant permits to same-sex foreign spouses whom they had married outside the country.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2023\/05\/16\/namibia-recognises-same-sex-marriages-concluded-abroad-with-foreign-spouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2023\/05\/16\/namibia-recognises-same-sex-marriages-concluded-abroad-with-foreign-spouse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINDHOEK &#8211; Namibia&#8217;s Supreme Court on Tuesday recognised same-sex marriages contracted abroad between citizens and foreign spouses, a landmark ruling in a country where homosexuality is illegal. The decision overturns a ruling reached last year by the High Court, which refused to accept same-sex marriages concluded outside Namibia. Two Namibian nationals had sought recourse from [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-namibia","type-news-articles","item-year-691","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-gender","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38381","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=38381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38382,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38381\/revisions\/38382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}