{"id":239641,"date":"2026-07-27T07:27:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-child-abuse-hits-10-year-high-in-namibia-girls-suffer-most\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T07:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:27:55","slug":"namibia-child-abuse-hits-10-year-high-in-namibia-girls-suffer-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-child-abuse-hits-10-year-high-in-namibia-girls-suffer-most\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Child Abuse Hits 10-Year High in Namibia, Girls Suffer Most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>A new government report reveals that girls in Namibia consistently faced higher rates of reported violence than boys over a 10-year period.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Girls recorded higher numbers of reported violence cases than boys between 2014 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">This is according to the Namibia Child Care and Protection Statistics Report which the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare launched yesterday.<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Minister Emma Kantema said the report shows an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607240091.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>A new government report reveals that girls in Namibia consistently faced higher rates of reported violence than boys over a 10-year period. Girls recorded higher numbers of reported violence cases than boys between 2014 and 2023. This is according to the Namibia Child Care and Protection Statistics Report which the Ministry of Gender Equality and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[7934,5099,258,256,8438,7010,6184,7111,4706,724,257,254,6584],"class_list":["post-239641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-10year","tag-abuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-child","tag-girls","tag-high","tag-hits","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suffer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239641","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=239641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}