In 1993, 28,318 cases of rape were reported and police estimate that only 2.8 per cent of all cases of rape are actually reported.

Each year about (600) cases of rape and 150 cases of attempted rape are reported to the Namibian Police.

Alleged cases of domestic violence, rape, attempted rape and sexual assault are regularly reported.

Each year about six hundred (600) cases of rape and 150 (one hundred and fifty) cases of attempted rape are reported to the police.

Responsibility in rape cases is difficult to establish.

Thus all cases of rape, irrespective of the marital or other status are prosecuted ex officio.

The Criminal Code prohibited rape, and marital rape was considered rape.

A woman who was reportedly raped on 2 October said that a Bashingantahe settled the rape case and she accepted a payment from the perpetrator in exchange for not registering a complaint.

The report also noted the high risk of rape for women and differences in regional statistics on rape.

Cases dealt with under the Combating of Rape Act

Rape cases also continued in Western Darfur.

Under the Combating of Rape Act, the court would be closed to the public during the entire rape trial unless the complainant requests otherwise.

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In 1994 there were 32,107 cases of rape reported an increase of 16 per cent over the previous year.

Draft additional amendment to the Criminal Code with regard to an offence of rape .

The provisions of the Civil Code relating to adultery in practice concerned women only, and cases of adultery by men were indeed regarded as allowed by custom .

As a response to the increasing number of rape cases, the Government of Namibia enacted the Combating of Rape Act in 2000 (Act 8 of 2000).

93. From 1981 to 1991, the police recorded 55,600 complaints of sexual violence, meaning rape, seduction and indecent acts (CUANTO, 1992).

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As a response to the increasing number and brutal nature of rape cases, organisations from a diverse spectrum of social and political life have made appeals to the Ministry of Justice and the Law Reform and Development Commission for new laws on rape that give stiffer sentences for convicted rapists, revise the definition of rape, remove the marital rape exemption, etc.

(c) To support programmes to eliminate rape and other forms of sexual violence in all their manifestations, and design programmes to provide assistance to all victims of rape

It was not until two days later that he learned about the alleged rape.

Fifteen rape cases were reported in six provinces, including the gang rape of a young woman in Cibitoke province.

The previous law on rape in Namibia contributed to marital rape (a man raping his wife) and rape of people other than women, because these crimes were legally defined not as rape, but as indecent assault (Iipinge and LeBeau 1997 80).

In August, cases of rape included three victims aged 4, 8 and 17, in Makamba and Muramvya provinces.

Murder and rape?

An article classifying rape as a matter in which criminal procedures must be initiated by the aggrieved party has been deleted from the Criminal Code.

The DEAM in the Distrito Federal has a rape telephone hot line, a video library and leaflets on domestic violence and rape.

Documented reports of rape, sexual slavery and forced marriage continue to be received.

Some 125,637 persons were convicted of crimes ranging from rape (including rape of a minor), to molestation of a child, to enticing minors to gather for licentious activities.

Seventy eight of the soldiers who took part in the rapes were identified.

The draft Act, however, leaves a channel of help for victims of marital rape.

In another case, a 12 year old girl was raped in Kambia District.

The Combating of Rape Act provides for stiff minimum sentences for rapists.

The National Committee on Rape has yet to demonstrate an impact on the prevention or prosecution of rape in Northern Darfur.

There had been 9 cases of rape of children under 15, 7 of which had been solved, and 20 cases of rape of children aged between 15 and 18, of which 16 had been solved.

The problem of sexual and gender based violence was particularly troubling in western Darfur, where UNMIS documented 21 cases nine cases of rape, four cases of attempted rape and eight cases of assault.

Sodomy, oral sex and penetration by foreign objects are not considered rape.

Rape also continues.

He did not rape me.

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This will respond to the rampant settlement, out of court, of several rape cases.