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Namibia: Marriage Act of 2024 faces legal challenge over constitutionality – lawyer Carli Schickerling – News

Namibia: Marriage Act of 2024 faces legal challenge over constitutionality – lawyer Carli Schickerling – News

Africa Links 24 with Feni Hiveluah
Published on 2025-01-21 17:00:00

Human rights activist John Nakuta says the anti-gay marriage act signed into law by presindent Nangolo Mbumba can be challenged in court, since it is discriminatory and in violation of the Constitution’s equality clause.

He says the implementation of the Marriage Act seeks to find loopholes around the 2023 Supreme Court judgement that same-sex marriages legally concluded outside Namibia must be recognised by the Namibian government.

“And for me, that is something of great concern,…

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