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Dear Media Practitioners, Interested Parties, Academics and Researchers as well as Civil Society Actors of Repute:

Attached hereto in PDF Format is the Extended Version of NSHR’s submission or Stakeholder Report 2010 under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) procedure of the 47-Member UN Human Rights Council (HRC), formerly known as the UN Commission on Human Rights.

This Report has been submitted to the HRC in terms of paragraph 3(m) of HRC Resolution 5/1 of June ...

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Dear Mr Ntinda

On 7 July 2010 several members of our family/clan from both side issued a joint statement in which they totally condemned the repugnant and inflammatory statements by you, the editor of the Swapo Party newspaper “Namiba Today”, Mr Asser Ntinda. In your editorial column called “Zoom IN”, Mr Ntinda you falsely and maliciously claimed our “whole family (ezimo alihe)” is “ashamed” of Mr. Ya Nangoloh’s so-called unbecoming behaviour and notorious activities and that “...everywhere ...

A security guard in the employ of G4S is accusing the Namibian Police of arbitrary deprivation of liberty. Mathew Munsu Malumbano (28), who spoke through his brother, told NSHR that he was arrested on June 1 2010 on “baseless” suspicion of being an accomplice in what was some media have described as hitherto Namibia’s largest cash-in-transit heist. The incident occurred some 2 kilometers outside Karibib along the road leading to Omaruru.

The two men were transporting the money ...

Namibia’s National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) wishes to join Women’s Action for Development (WAD) to warn Namibian families about, among others, a Nigerian human trafficking (HT) syndicate currently operating from Johannesburg, South Africa (SA). The syndicate is using various methods to lure young Namibian women to SA for the burgeoning sex industry during the FIFA World Cup 2010.

NSHR has impeccable documentary evidence about some of the modus operandi of the syndicate.

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I am just loosing words to describe this so-called 2010 Parliament in Namibia. Firstly, it was forced upon us as it is under a cloud of “rigged” elections.

Its legitimacy is being disputed in Court. Secondly, it consists of a mostly recycled clique (as MPs and Ministers) of the past five years which was tainted by political party worshipping, dozing, absence without official leave (awol), passing the ill/un-researched and unconstitutional laws, reading for leisure, chatting (whispering), ...