Namibia: UNHRC Warns Namibia Over Prison Abuse

In a recent report, the United Nations has called upon Namibia to consider establishing an independent body which would have access to all places of detention and conduct investigations into violations of rights and abuses in prison. Other areas of concern noted by the report were the high number of customary marriages that continued to be unregistered, depriving women and children of their rights as a consequence, and the fact that torture was still considered a common law offence to be charged as assult or criminal injury and was not defined in domestic criminal law.