{"id":33415,"date":"2021-10-13T09:34:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T09:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=33415"},"modified":"2021-10-14T09:37:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T09:37:42","slug":"judge-declares-surrogate-child-a-namibian-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/judge-declares-surrogate-child-a-namibian-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge declares surrogate child a Namibian citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Werner Menges<\/p>\n<p>Same-sex couple Phillip L\u00fchl and Guillermo Delgado scored a victory in the Windhoek High Court on Wednesday, with judge Thomas Masuku declaring that their first-born child is a Namibian citizen by descent.<\/p>\n<p>Masuku also ordered the minister of home affairs, immigration, safety and security to issue a certificate of Namibian citizenship to the couple&rsquo;s son, who was born through a surrogate pregnancy in South Africa in March 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Although L\u00fchl, who is a born Namibian, is reflected on the boy&rsquo;s birth certificate as one of his parents, with the Mexican-born Delgado reflected as the second parent, the home affairs ministry has been refusing to acknowledge that the boy is a Namibian citizen by descent.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/106233\/read\/Judge-declares-surrogate-child-a-Namibian-citizen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/106233\/read\/Judge-declares-surrogate-child-a-Namibian-citizen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Werner Menges Same-sex couple Phillip L\u00fchl and Guillermo Delgado scored a victory in the Windhoek High Court on Wednesday, with judge Thomas Masuku declaring that their first-born child is a Namibian citizen by descent. Masuku also ordered the minister of home affairs, immigration, safety and security to issue a certificate of Namibian citizenship to [&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":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-namibie","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-676","item-theme-acquisition-par-les-enfants","item-theme-discrimination-fr","item-theme-enregistrement-des-naissances","item-theme-sexuelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33416,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33415\/revisions\/33416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}