This section features articles that are meant to inform readers about perspectives, issues and debates around certain topics considered relevant within the Access to Information arena, as well as highlights about all those activities and themes that matter to the ACTION Coalition network and the spaces we engage in.
ACTION Member Statement: ‘President should not base criticism (of voters) on race’ – Legal Assistance Centre
During the launch of the ruling South West Africa People's Organisation (Swapo) party's 2020 campaign for the November Regional Council and Local Authority elections, President Hage Geingob said he has noted a trend in which white Namibians have been registering...
ACTION Namibia Coalition Statement: Coalition condemns disproportionate actions against #ShutItAllDown protesters
The ACTION Namibia Coalition condemns the disproportionate actions used by the Namibian Police on Saturday October 10 against the #ShutItAllDown protest over the SGBV and femicide crisis in Namibia. It is clear from the video footage of the protests that the Police...
ACTION Member Statement: ‘Let the people raise their voices without fear’ – Legal Assistance Centre
The Legal Assistance Centre as a public interest law firm respects the need for the police to maintain law and order. What the Legal Assistance Centre does NOT CONDONE is the heavy handed response to the protestors against SGBV that has rocked our capital in the last...
ACTION Member Statement: Editors’ Forum condemns manhandling and intimidation of journalists during #ShutItAllDown protests
The Editors’ Forum of Namibia (EFN) is greatly concerned about the physical force used by the Namibian Police’s Special Field Force against journalists who were covering the #ShutItAllDown protest marches against Gender-Based Violence and Femicide. The protests were...
ACTION Namibia Coalition statement on the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) 2020
The 2020 theme has an uplifting and emphatic ring to it as we mark International Day for Universal Access to Information 2020 against the backdrop of a world mired in crises. The global COVID-19 pandemic has come to expose and boldly underscore for us again both the...
ACTION Coalition Statement: Zimbabwe … African Lives Matter Too
ACTION Coalition calls on the President of Namibia, His Excellency Dr. Hage G. Geingob, as well as other SADC heads of State and the AU Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat to act in the interests of human rights in Zimbabwe. As a coalition of Namibian human...
