{"id":175138,"date":"2024-06-24T01:12:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T23:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-decision-to-overturn-sodomy-laws-is-a-victory-for-human-rights\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T01:12:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T23:12:43","slug":"namibia-decision-to-overturn-sodomy-laws-is-a-victory-for-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-decision-to-overturn-sodomy-laws-is-a-victory-for-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia &#8211; Decision to Overturn &#8216;Sodomy&#8217; Laws Is a Victory for Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Responding to the decision by the Namibia High Court to overturn the country&#8217;s colonial-era &#8220;sodomy&#8221; and &#8220;unnatural offences&#8221; laws which had criminalised same-sex sexual conduct between consenting adults, Amnesty International&#8217;s Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Khanyo Farise, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"118\">&#8220;The Namibia High Court decision to overturn these laws and decriminalise consensual same-sex sexual conduct is a victory for love, for equality and for human rights. &#8220;This ruling is a step toward&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406210506.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the decision by the Namibia High Court to overturn the country&#8217;s colonial-era &#8220;sodomy&#8221; and &#8220;unnatural offences&#8221; laws which had criminalised same-sex sexual conduct between consenting adults, Amnesty International&#8217;s Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Khanyo Farise, said: &#8220;The Namibia High Court decision to overturn these laws and decriminalise consensual same-sex sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":175139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7430,3575,5040,4706,724,257,21344,5100,4572,254,10099],"class_list":["post-175138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-decision","tag-human","tag-laws","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-overturn","tag-rights","tag-sodomy","tag-south-africa-today","tag-victory"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}