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November 13, 2024
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Long distance negatively impacts marriages – van Wyk
Long-distance marriages have the potential to negatively affect families due to separation. Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) MP Jan van Wyk, agreeing with the mover of the motion, Hidipo Hamata, says families play a role as the building blocks of society and separation is not an ideal situation. Addressing the National Assembly, Van Wyk stressed that...
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United Nations: Poverty driving child soldiers and early marriages
Virginia Gamba, the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict warns that poverty and lack of education are pushing boys into joining armed groups and forcing girls to marry way before they should. The post United Nations: Poverty driving child soldiers and early marriages first appeared on Future Media. Source link
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‘Divorce law keeps people in abusive marriages’
The executive chairperson of the Alliance of Reverend Christian Churches in Namibia, Dolly Nengushe, has urged the government not to make it easier for people to get divorced. However, Gladice Pickering, the executive director of justice, says the current divorce law forces spouses to stay in abusive and unhappy marriages. “They are forced to remain...
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Namibia: Same-Sex Marriage’s Fate in Geingob’s Hands
Swapo legislator Jerry Ekandjo’s private member’s bill, which deals with changes to the Marriage Act, including the prohibition of same-sex marriages and any acknowledgment of such unions in Namibia, has sailed in both chambers of Parliament. Ekandjo wants a precise definition of the term spouse that aligns with Namibia’s existing definition of marriage. In the...
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Advertising potential marriages for objections ‘nonsense’
A decision by the ministry of home affairs to introduce a marriage application bill that, among others, would require couples to submit a marriage application that will be advertised in the newspapers for objections, has been labelled “nonsense”. Political analyst Ndumba Kamwanyah said marriage should not be based on public approval, but on the will...
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Anti-gay marriages bill same as apartheid laws, lawyer says
Experienced lawyer Richard Metcalfe has compared anti-same sex marriages bills presently on their way to Namibia’s executive as the same as discriminatory laws passed under the apartheid system. Metcalfe has called for tolerance, saying that the bills against the recognition of same-sex marriage take Namibia back to pre-independence hatred, division and discrimination. The bills were...
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Ekandjo to introduce bills prohibiting same-sex marriages tomorrow
Staff Reporter VETERAN Swapo member of parliament, Jerry Ekandjo, has given notice of a motion in parliament to introduce a Private Members Bill and to amend the Marriage Act of 1961. The purpose of these bills is to contradict and prohibit the recognition of same-sex marriages in the country. Ekandjo’s announcement in parliament follows contradictory...
