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Namibia | Shock as govt appeals historic same-sex family ruling

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Guillermo Delgado (left) and Phillip Lühl (right) with their lawyer Uno Katjipuka-Sibolile (centre) Photo: Namibia Equal Rights Movement The government of Namibia has taken a step backwards by deciding to appeal the recent landmark High Court ruling recognising a gay couple’s son as a Namibian citizen. On 13 October, Judge Thomas Masuku ruled that two-and-half-year-old Yona Delgado-Lühl – born via surrogacy in South Africa to Namibian Phillip Lühl and his Mexican husband, Guillermo Delgado – was entitled to Namibian citizenship by descent.

Significantly, the judge found that rejecting Yona’s right to citizenship on the basis that his parents are a same-sex couple is unlawful discrimination and that it violated the Namibian Constitution,

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