 |  NAMIBIA: Red Carpet For Korean Dictator NSHR Namibia’s National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) registers its serious reservations about the official visit to the country by Kim Yong-nam who is one of North Korea’s dictators.
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.jpg) | NAMIBIA: NSHR - ECN To Show Cause Over Contradictions NSHR According to a prominent report in the State-funded New Era newspaper this morning (Monday, 10 March), Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) Chairpreson Victor Tonchi admitted yesterday that the “special vacation leave” granted to Kanime et al was, indeed, “a disciplinary measure [...] following irregularities that took place in the build up to the Omuthiya local authority elections, which were postponed last month”.
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| | NAMIBIA: NSHR - Politicians Nabbed About Unlawful Weapons NSHR NSHR once again congratulates Namibian Police (NamPol) officers for seizing a large number of automatic weapons from civilians in and around the Ondangwa area. According to human rights monitors, NamPol officers, on March 4 2008, nabbed at least 8 prominent SWAPO Party politicians and businesspeople, including a woman, that were found in possession of weapons of war, as automatic assault rifles are called in NamPol parlance. The seized weapons were AK-47 automatic assault rifles, monitors said, citing “very reliable” sources.
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 | NAMIBIA: Kanime's Dismissla Assault On Democracy NSHR NSHR deplores the summary removal late last week of Directorate of Elections (DoE) Director Philemon Kanime from his post. Through an undated and awkward Media Release issued last Friday, March 7 2008, Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) Chairperson Victor Tonchi announced that Kanime and three other senior DoE officials have been granted “special vacation leave with immediate effect”.
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 | NAMIBIA: NSHR - In Defence of Truth and Press Freedom National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) NSHR has taken note of the ongoing furor around the recent publication of exiled Caprivi separatist leader Mishake Muyongo’s New Year message in the February 18-29 2008 edition of The Caprivi Vision (TCV) community newspaper. Muyongo’s statement inter alia called for ‘unity and strength in the struggle for the freedom and independence’ for Namibia’s Caprivi Region.
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 | NAMIBIA: NSHR - Now Pohamba Sees The Right NSHR NSHR praises President Lucas Hifikepunye Pohamba and Information Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah for emulating the good example set by certain Opposition leaders in the country. The two Namibian leaders over the weekend urged SWAPO Party supporters to refrain from engaging in acts of provocation and political violence against their opponents.
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 | NAMIBIA: NSHR - Swapo’s Objections Mala Fide And Delaying Tactic NSHR The reported objections by the ruling SWAPO Party to the altogether 12 names of people included on the voters’ roll for the Omuthiya Local Authority election should be viewed as a mala fide and a frivolous delaying tactic. Accordingly, such objections should be declared null and void on the basis of several established moral, conventional and legal principles or grounds:
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 | NAMIBIA: NSHR - Axe Health Minister For Snake Bite Death NSHR NSHR calls upon the Namibian Police to immediately investigate the crimes of criminal negligence and or involuntary culpable homicide against the relevant medical personnel, both doctors and nurses, at Windhoek’s Katutura State Hospital. This call is necessitated by the untimely death of a three-days-old infant, Maria Munetumba, at the said health institution. The top administrative officials in the Ministry of Health should therefore be held responsible for Ms. Munetumba’s death and should also be investigated accordingly.
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 | NAMIBIA: Condemning Mishake Muyongo’s New Year’s Message Ministry of Information + Broadcasting The publication of fugitive Mishake Muyongo’s inciting New Year’s message in the Caprivi Vision, one of the community newspapers in the Caprivi region, is a blatant demonstration of disregard for the Namibian Constitution by the editor of the publication, Mr. Risco Lumamezi. His action, to allow his newspaper to be used as a mouthpiece for Mr. Muyongo’s calls for an independent Caprivi, can well result in him being prosecuted under existing laws and in line with Article 21 (2) of the Namibian Constitution.
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 | NAMIBIA: Information Minister on "Talk of the Nation" MIB With reference to the article that appeared in the New Era of 26th February 2008, I want to make it clear that I have not withdrawn from the NBC talk show on the subject of the establishment of the media council as reported.
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 | NAMIBIA: NSHR - Catalog Of Provocative Incidents NSHR Namibia’s National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) is once again sounding an alarm to the Namibian Government and to the international community at large about a real possibility of the breaking out of widespread ethno-political violence, anarchy and mayhem in the country.
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.jpg) | NAMIBIA: NSHR - Independent Special Investigation Of Meat Contract Scandal Warranted NSHR Namibia’s National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) is calling on the Namibian Head of State, President Lucas Hifikepunye Pohamba, to urgently appoint an independent commission of enquiry lead by an independent special investigator to probe the widespread allegations of conflict of interest on the part of Justice Minister and Attorney General Ms. Pendukeni Iivula Ithana.
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 | NAMIBIA: NSHR - Claims Of Rape And Discourteous Treatment NSHR A woman had allegedly been raped by a man at the State’s mental health clinic, highly placed sources, who spoke on condition anonymity, said. The incident allegedly occurred on Tuesday, February 19 2008, between 15h00 and 20h00 in the so-called forensic section of the said health institution.
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 | NAMIBIA: NSHR - Sustained Media Attacks And Provocative Conduct Deplored NSHR Namibia’s human rights monitoring and advocacy organization, National Society for Human Rights (NSHR), deplores a spate of verbal attacks and shouting incendiary epithets against human rights defenders and media practitioners in the country. The attacks come from certain high-ranking leaders of the ruling SWAPO Party.
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 | NAMIBIA: NSHR - Acc Shoots Self In Foot, De Novo NSHR Namibia’s National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) rejects the misleading impression created that the country’s human rights monitoring and advocacy organization had lodged a formal complaint with the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) requesting the latter to investigate allegations of a conflict of interest. The allegations involve the acquisition, by Justice Minister and Attorney General as well as SWAPO Party Secretary General Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana, of a lucrative contract to sell meat to the outlets of Cabinet-controlled Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR).
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 | SADC: Southern Africa flood crisis is not over Red Cross + Red Crescent Societies The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is launching a revised emergency appeal for 11.4 million Swiss francs (US$ 10.3 million / € 7.1 million) to support Red Cross societies in southern Africa in their response to the current flood crisis. A preliminary appeal was issued on January 18 for 8 million Swiss francs (US$ 7.2 million / € 5 million
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