{"id":216280,"date":"2025-12-10T22:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-urged-to-criminalise-digital-violence-as-online-abuse-of-women-rises\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T22:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:07:11","slug":"namibia-urged-to-criminalise-digital-violence-as-online-abuse-of-women-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-urged-to-criminalise-digital-violence-as-online-abuse-of-women-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia Urged to Criminalise Digital Violence As Online Abuse of Women Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>The United Nations Population Fund has called for the inclusion of digital violence in laws and policies to ensure it is taken seriously like other crimes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Fund country representative Erika Goldson made these remarks at the observance of International Human Rights Day and Namibian Women&#8217;s Day at Katima Mulilo on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The national women&#8217;s day is themed: &#8216;United to End Digital Violence Against All Women and Girls.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">In a speech&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512100500.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>The United Nations Population Fund has called for the inclusion of digital violence in laws and policies to ensure it is taken seriously like other crimes. Fund country representative Erika Goldson made these remarks at the observance of International Human Rights Day and Namibian Women&#8217;s Day at Katima Mulilo on Wednesday. The national women&#8217;s day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[5099,258,256,53094,9633,4706,724,257,6849,8688,254,6206,2148,6524],"class_list":["post-216280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-abuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-criminalise","tag-digital","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-online","tag-rises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urged","tag-violence","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/216280","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=216280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}