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Women in Namibia face challenges in their health, gender based violence, and access to education.The government of Namibia is taking steps to provide women with equal rights to a degree that is largely unparalleled in Sub-Saharan Africa, including the promise of gender equality and increased parliament representation in the Namibian constitution.
Sister Namibia's main office houses a library with over 2,000 books on a vast array of topics, including women's rights, sexuality, gender, and violence. [26] The main goals of the resource center are to keep it maintained with books and documents on gender and women's issues, including the women's movement of Namibia.
It has a dual system of public (serving 83% of the population) and private (17%) health care providers. [3] In the financial year 2020, Government and private health expenditure combined accounted for 8.9% of the country's Gross Domestic Product , [ 4 ] compared to the world average of the 10% of GDP in 2018.
Photo illustration by Kelly Flynn/CNN/Getty Images. ... Namibia and Mexico – did so for the first time in their nation’s history. ... The first woman to become leader of an African country was ...
She also enrolled in a financial course for non-financial managers at Colombia University, US (1993); Advanced Executive Programme at UNISA, South Africa (1992); Diploma, Epidemiology and French in Bamako, Mali, (1980 – 1983); Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK (1977 – 1978 ...
The OvaHimba submitted in February 2012 their protest declaration against the hydroelectric dam to the United Nations, the African Union and to the Government of Namibia. [ 23 ] The governments of Norway and Iceland funded mobile schools for Himba children, but since Namibia took them over in 2010, they have been converted to permanent schools ...
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In 2021 Theophelus was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of the year. [14] She also received the 2022 United Nations Population Award for her work advocating for women’s empowerment and adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Namibia [12] In 2021, Theofelus proposed a motion on the removal of the tax on sanitary pads in Parliament.