{"id":216338,"date":"2025-12-11T10:08:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-cannot-honour-human-rights-when-violence-persists-says-president-nandi-ndaitwah\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:08:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:08:02","slug":"namibia-cannot-honour-human-rights-when-violence-persists-says-president-nandi-ndaitwah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-cannot-honour-human-rights-when-violence-persists-says-president-nandi-ndaitwah\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia Cannot Honour Human Rights When Violence Persists, Says President Nandi-Ndaitwah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has warned that the country cannot claim meaningful progress on human rights when gender-based-violence (GBV) continues to threaten the safety of women across the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">In a message marking International Human Rights Day and Namibian Women&#8217;s Day on Wednesday, Nandi-Ndaitwah said GBV is a violation of human dignity and a betrayal of the values upheld by freedom fighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">&#8220;Women deserve safety, respect, and the full protection of the law in an independent&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512100499.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>President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has warned that the country cannot claim meaningful progress on human rights when gender-based-violence (GBV) continues to threaten the safety of women across the country. In a message marking International Human Rights Day and Namibian Women&#8217;s Day on Wednesday, Nandi-Ndaitwah said GBV is a violation of human dignity and a betrayal of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661724:725406fb698ce92e21de912fae59111c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,10998,3575,4706,724,20099,257,20570,2450,5100,254,2148],"class_list":["post-216338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-honour","tag-human","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-nandindaitwah","tag-news","tag-persists","tag-president","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violence"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661724:725406fb698ce92e21de912fae59111c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216338","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=216338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}