Namibia, through Minister of Justice Yvonne Dausab and international lawyer Phoebe Okowa, presented oral statements on Friday at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands on the legal consequences arising from the policies and practices of Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem. Dausab said it is due to history that...
Israel kan nog regstappe in die gesig staar: Israelis Against Apartheid Die Israelse menseregte-organisasie, Israelis Against Apartheid, waarsku die land kan verdere regstappe in die gesig staar as hy nie sy beleid aanspreek nie. Die Israelse premier Benjamin Netanyahu het die uitspraak deur die Internasionale Geregshof gekritiseer en beskryf dit as verregaande en diskriminerend teen...
Prime minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila says Namibia is still grappling with, among others, the after-affects of apartheid’s discriminatory policies. Kuugongelwa-Amadhila said this at the Human Rights 75 high-level event on the future of human rights, the economy, and development in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday. The two-day event was convened by United Nations Human Rights. She added...
10 December is worldwide commemorated as Human Rights Day. It marks the anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted on that day in 1948. Many countries and organisations acknowledge this as a significant marker. It created a lasting, normative framework defining fundamental human rights. UN Member States, while in constant violation, have...
Israel is nie apartheid SA, sê ACDP Die African Christian Democratic Party het die uitspraak van die Anglikaanse Kerk van Suider-Afrika om Israel as ‘n Apartheidstaat te bestempel, sterk veroordeel. Die partyleier, Kenneth Meshoe, het sy teleurstelling uitgespreek en voer aan dit bevraagteken aartsbiskop Thabo Mokgoba se objektiwiteit as bemiddelaar in die Israeli/Palestynse konflik. Meshoe...
President Hage Geingob has backtracked on his comments on the apartheid government being worse than the German regime’s genocide on the Nama and Ovaherero communities. In response to criticism of these comments, the Presidency yesterday issued a statement to clarify the head of state’s words. During a public lecture at the Paris Institute of Political...
‘Politieke agendas’ lei tot fopnuus oor Geingob, apartheid en die volksmoord In ‘n verklaring wat voorkom soos propaganda, sê die Presidensie hy wil ‘n veldtog van verkeerde inligting en disinformasie weerlê. President Hage Geingob het volgens die verklaring nie in New York gesê dat apartheid erger as die volksmoord was nie – hy het net...
Erasmus Shalihaxwe Joseph Kauandenge, the General Secretary of the National Unity Democratic Organisation (NUDO), is calling for an immediate apology from President Hage Geingob concerning the comments he made on genocide and apartheid a few weeks ago in Europe. President Geingob, during a public lecture at the Paris Institute of Political Studies in France, was...
Stefanus Nashama Panduleni Itula, the Leader of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), says the genocide of both the Ovaherero and Nama people and the torturous years of apartheid are foundational pains that still reverberate in Namibian society. Itula yesterday said that the comparison of this foundational trauma risks undermining the quest for restorative justice...
President Hage Geingob calls for an end to vaccine apartheid in his UN General Assembly address, aligning with a political declaration on pandemic prevention by global leaders. The post President Geingob urges UN to end vaccine apartheid first appeared on Future Media. Source link