{"id":38406,"date":"2023-05-16T15:51:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=38406"},"modified":"2023-05-23T09:09:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T09:09:18","slug":"namibia-court-endorses-recognizing-same-sex-marriage-from-other-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/namibia-court-endorses-recognizing-same-sex-marriage-from-other-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia Court Endorses Recognizing Same-Sex Marriage From Other Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Vitalio Angula<\/p>\n<p>WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA \u2014 The Supreme Court of Namibia has ruled in favor of recognizing same-sex marriages from other countries, making Namibia only the second nation on the continent to do so after South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>A small group of LGBTQ activists gathered at Namibia\u2019s Supreme Court Tuesday where justices ruled in a 4 to 1 vote that Namibians married to foreign nationals in foreign jurisdictions must be recognized as any other couple within the country.<\/p>\n<p>One of the judges, JA Mainga, dissented on the basis that the laws of Namibia do not recognize same-sex relationships. The other four judges, however, ruled that not recognizing same-sex couples infringes on their rights to dignity and equality.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/namibia-court-endorses-recognizing-same-sex-marriage-from-other-countries\/7095694.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/namibia-court-endorses-recognizing-same-sex-marriage-from-other-countries\/7095694.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Vitalio Angula WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA \u2014 The Supreme Court of Namibia has ruled in favor of recognizing same-sex marriages from other countries, making Namibia only the second nation on the continent to do so after South Africa. A small group of LGBTQ activists gathered at Namibia\u2019s Supreme Court Tuesday where justices ruled in a 4 [&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-38406","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\/38406","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=38406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38407,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38406\/revisions\/38407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}