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Namibia: Sterilisation sparks social outcry

9th September 2010
When an HIV-positive woman in labour arrived at a Namibian state hospital in October 2007, she did not know that the health workers responsible for delivering her baby would also be responsible for ensuring that she could never bear babies again.
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SALC in the News: Namibian women with HIV tell of forced sterilisations

9th September 2010
"I was in labour at the state hospital when a nurse showed me a paper and said I must sign to allow a Caesarean section," she told a court last week, speaking through an interpreter.
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Namibia: Parties win poll appeal

7th September 2010
In a judgement given in the Supreme Court yesterday, the nine parties won their appeal against the High Court ruling in which their challenge to both the National Assembly and the presidential elections was struck from the court roll on March 4.
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Namibia: Doctor rules out future pregnancy

6th September 2010
A GYNAECOLOGIST testified in the High Court in Windhoek on Friday that two of the women suing Government after being sterilised in State hospitals face a very poor prognosis for having their ability to have children restored.
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Namibia: Mother of seven joins sterilisation legal action

2nd September 2010
ONE of the women suing Government based on claims that their child-bearing years were cut short without their informed consent, testified in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday that she had given birth to her seventh child when she was sterilised against her will in the Katutura State Hospital.
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Namibia: Spat over Bashir overshadows Kenya’s landmark celebrations

30th August 2010
NAIROBI - Kenya adopted a new constitution on Friday but the landmark was overshadowed by an international furore at the presence of Sudan President Omar al-Bashir, whom an international court has indicated for genocide and war crimes.
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Namibia: Summit ends with no decision on Zim land-reform case

18th August 2010
Southern African leaders on Tuesday gave themselves six months to review a stand-off between Zimbabwe and a regional court that ruled against President Robert Mugabe's land reforms.
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Namibia: African Court Becomes White Elephant

18th August 2010
ALTHOUGH the African Court has been in existence for the past seven years, it has only heard one case, which was thrown out on technical grounds.
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Namibian High Court begins Trial in Coerced Sterilization of HIV Positive Women Case

31st July 2010
The case of three HIV-positive women suing the Namibian government for coerced sterilisation was continued until 1 September 2010.
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Namibia: Govt scraps AIDS clause from visa forms

9th July 2010
THE Ministry of Home Affairs has removed a controversial requirement on entry visa application forms to declare one’s HIV-AIDS status and other infectious diseases like tuberculosis.
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Namibia: Sterilisation case in court

2nd June 2010
WINDHOEK – The case in which Government is being taken to court over the alleged forced sterilisation of six women at state medical facilities reopened in the High Court yesterday, and is likely to continue next week.
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Namibia: Are Namibian Women Being Forcibly Sterilised?

31st May 2010
REHOBOTH, Namibia , May 31 (IPS) - A landmark court case, alleging that HIV-positive women were forcibly sterilised in Namibian state hospitals begins in Windhoek's High Court on Jun. 1. Human rights groups claim the practice has continued long after the authorities were notified.
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Namibia: People have the right to know

7th May 2010
THIS week The Namibian carried at least two stories which showed how ignorant some people are about access to information and their blatant disrespect to other people’s right to information. This happened in the same week we celebrated World Press Freedom Day (Monday) under the theme ‘Access to Information: the Right to Know’.
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SALC in the News: My fertility was stolen from me

14th April 2010
In Namibia, HIV-positive women are being tricked into sterilisation.Is this a country desperate to c....
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Namibian High Court begins Trial in Coerced Sterilization of HIV Positive Women Case

10th March 2010
The case of three HIV-positive women suing the Namibian government for coerced sterilisation was ord....
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Namibia: Namibian Government Implicated in Involuntary Sterilizations of HIV-Positive Women

18th November 2009
As far back as 2001, women living with HIV/AIDS were being sterilized in Namibian hospitals, without their autonomous consent. Shockingly, these women, whose cases the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS began documenting in 2008, continue to wait for redress.
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SALC in News: Namibia Women Face Forced Sterilization

12th November 2009
Ten years ago, Susan* was admitted to a public hospital in Namibia for an emergency surgery. She was 20 years old and was unaware that she was pregnant. When she woke up from surgery, she was told by a nurse that they had "taken her womb because [she] had HIV." She has no children and now it is unlikely she ever will.
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SALC in the News: Women up in arms against forced sterilisation

23rd October 2009
We have the right to choose.” This was the key message women conveyed when they marching against the alleged sterilisation of HIV-positive women in state hospitals this week. Rosa Namises of Women’s Solidarity Namibia, said the alleged sterilisation of women without their consent is a gross violation of human rights.
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Namibia: Sterilisation case goes to High Court

16th October 2009
WINDHOEK – Six of the 15 cases involving HIV-positive women who were allegedly sterilised without their consent will be heard by the High Court starting next week.
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MISA NAMIBIA ENCOURAGES PUBLIC TO EMBRACE A FREE PRESS

2nd February 2009
The Namibian Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa is once again calling on the public at large to embrace the notion of a free and independent press, in order to be updated on what happens in the country at all times....
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Agenda 75 - The coerced sterilisation of HIV-positive women in Namibia by Priti Patel

26th January 2009
Forced and coerced sterilisation is synonymous with a paternalistic desire to control women’s reproductive capacity. It is a practice that has always targeted the most marginalised people in society.....
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