Guillermo Delgado (left) and Phillip Lühl (right) with their lawyer Uno Katjipuka-Sibolile (centre) Photo: Namibia Equal Rights Movement In a major legal victory for same-sex families in Namibia, the Windhoek High Court has recognised a gay couple’s son as a Namibian citizen. On Wednesday, Judge Thomas Masuku ruled that two and half-year-old Yona Delgado-Lühl is entitled to Namibian citizenship by descent.
The boy was born via surrogacy in south Africa to Namibian Phillip Lühl and his Mexican husband, Guillermo Delgado. The Namibian government had refused to grant Yona citizenship, despite Lühl being named as one of the parents on his birth certificate.