{"id":33563,"date":"2021-10-26T14:19:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T14:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=33563"},"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\/fr\/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&rsquo;s rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">\u00ab\u00a0Protection of the child, we can see now, that that&rsquo;s paramount and that&rsquo;s a major step. It&rsquo;s a whole new ball game,\u00a0\u00bb 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\">\u00ab\u00a0Even though the L\u00fchl matter was about citizenship, it has really brought parenting for the LGBTQI+ community into the limelight. It&rsquo;s something that we&rsquo;ll start talking about,\u00a0\u00bb 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&rsquo;s rights. \u00ab\u00a0Protection of the child, we can see now, that that&rsquo;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,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33563","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-sexuelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33563","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=33563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33565,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33563\/revisions\/33565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}