{"id":1506,"date":"2016-06-20T12:27:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T12:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/identity-cards-passports-and-proof-of-nationality\/"},"modified":"2020-03-11T09:37:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T09:37:20","slug":"identity-cards-passports-and-proof-of-nationality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/identity-documents\/identity-cards-passports-and-proof-of-nationality\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity cards, passports and proof of nationality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not all African countries require their citizens to carry a national identity card, but the number is rapidly increasing. ECOWAS Member States have committed to introduce a common-form biometric identity card by 2017.\u00a0 The introduction of these new systems may be based on concerns for national security or to improve delivery of public services: but for these aims to be achieved, law and procedures must ensure that people are not arbitrarily excluded from acquiring these documents.<\/p>\n<p>Every citizen should have the right to a passport, enabling international travel, which should not be removed except following due process of law (for example, from a person accused of a serious crime).<\/p>\n<p>Only some African countries establish an independent judicial procedure for a person to obtain a \u201ccertificate of nationality\u201d or alternative document that is conclusive proof that a person is a national.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not all African countries require their citizens to carry a national identity card, but the number is rapidly increasing. ECOWAS Member States have committed to introduce a common-form biometric identity card by 2017.\u00a0 The introduction of these new systems may be based on concerns for national security or to improve delivery of public services: but [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1505,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1506","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26607,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1506\/revisions\/26607"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}