Namibia
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Data sources
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- Married Persons Equality Act 1 of 1996, [website], https://www.lac.org.na/laws/annoSTAT/Married%20Persons%20Equality%20Act%201%20of%201996.pdf (accessed January 2022).
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- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Joint statement on child, early and forced marriage, HRC 27, Agenda Item 3, [website], 2014, http://fngeneve.um.dk/en/aboutus/statements/newsdisplaypage/?newsid=6371ad93-8fb0-4c35-b186-820fa996d379 (accessed January 2022).
- Ministry of Health and Social Services, Namibia Demographic and Health Survey 2013, 2014, https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/FR298/FR298.pdf (accessed January 2022).
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- Republic of Namibia Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare, National formative study on child marriage, 2020, https://mgepesw.gov.na/documents/792320/918990/Child+Marriage+Final.pdf/3942673d-bc15-ae3f-44cd-15f8c59daf13?version=1.0&download=true (accessed May 2022).
- UN General Assembly, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Namibia, 2016, p.22, https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/NAindex.aspx (accessed January 2022).
- UN General Assembly, Summary prepared by OHCHR in accordance with paragraph 15 (c) of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 5/1 and paragraph 5 of the annex to Council resolution 16/21 Namibia, 2015, https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/NAindex.aspx (accessed January 2022).
- UN General Assembly, National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 16/21* Namibia, 2021, https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G21/031/32/PDF/G2103132.pdf?OpenElement (accessed May 2022).
- UNICEF, Namibia calls for end to child marriages as country commemorates Day of the African Child, [press release], 2015, https://www.unicef.org/namibia/DAC_2015_Press_release_Final.pdf (accessed January 2022).
- United Nations, Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform, [website], 2017, https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg5 (accessed January 2022).
- U.S. Department of State, United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, [website], 2019, https://www.state.gov/where-we-work-pepfar/(accessed January 2022).