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In 2004, women constituted 29% of all parliament members, placing Namibia at seventeenth in the world for female representation in parliament. [16] In 2014, the South West Africa People's Organisation introduced a policy committing to filling half of its seats in parliament with women, in addition to a "zebra" system in which a male prime ...
A health worker by profession, Nghidinwa ran several community health centres in the Okavango Region for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (ELCIN). She represented the ELCIN at the Lutheran World Conference in 1987 and served on the Church's governing council from 1991 to 1996. [1] She was a member of the National Assembly of Namibia ...
Libertina Appolus was born in Fransfontein, Kunene Region.Under the SWAPO Nationhood Programme, she received a scholarship to study medicine in Poland and graduated from the Warsaw Medical Academy in 1969, becoming Namibia's first female doctor.
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.
In 2003, Namibia was one of the countries in the world with the highest rates of HIV. 15.000 new cases of HIV each year, and 10.000 yearly deaths due to AIDS – and more than 30% of babies born to HIV-positive mothers were infected.Among numerous other initiatives the Namibian government began a cooperation with U.S. President's Emergency Plan ...
The 83-year-old businesswoman was holidaying in Namibia for Christmas and made sure to keep her fans updated about her African adventures. Martha Stewart’s holiday photos were nearly picture ...
Women's sandals are made from cows' skin while men's are made from old car tires. [citation needed] Women who have given birth wear a small backpack of skin attached to their traditional outfit. Himba people, especially women, are famous for covering themselves with otjize paste, a cosmetic mixture of butterfat and ochre pigment.
For scholar S. R. Toliver, Binti's success in creating otjize on a planet away from her home planet "symbolizes a metaphorical rebirth of the Himba culture in a new land" and "is a lasting remnant of home and healing in a land that was initially defined by surveillance and control".