{"id":10885,"date":"2016-11-15T22:25:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T22:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=10885"},"modified":"2016-11-16T08:58:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T08:58:23","slug":"cash-for-citizenship-rich-arab-countries-may-pay-poor-islands-to-take-stateless-bidoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/cash-for-citizenship-rich-arab-countries-may-pay-poor-islands-to-take-stateless-bidoons\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash for citizenship: rich Arab countries may pay poor islands to take \u2018stateless\u2019 Bidoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year the Comoros Islands, a small archipelago off the coast of Mozambique, expressed interest in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2016\/05\/17\/the-controversial-plan-to-give-kuwaits-stateless-people-citizenship-of-a-tiny-poor-african-island\/\">entering talks with the Kuwaiti government<\/a>. The subject? A deal that would grant Comorian citizenship to the stateless Bidoon population of Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in return for aid.<\/p>\n<p>The negotiations have been largely overlooked and even recently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gulfnews.com\/news\/gulf\/kuwait\/kuwait-denies-comoros-citizenship-agreement-1.1849101\">denied by the Kuwaiti government<\/a>. We urgently need clarity about what\u2019s happening: this initiative would both have drastic consequences for stateless people in the UAE and Kuwait, and set a dangerous precedent for vulnerable populations worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odi.org\/comment\/10461-cash-citizenship-rich-arab-countries-may-pay-poor-islands-take-stateless-bidoons#.WCsA0fdizhA.twitter\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this year the Comoros Islands, a small archipelago off the coast of Mozambique, expressed interest in\u00a0entering talks with the Kuwaiti government. The subject? A deal that would grant Comorian citizenship to the stateless Bidoon population of Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in return for aid. The negotiations have been largely overlooked and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[627],"class_list":["post-10885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bidoon","region-comoros","type-news-articles","item-year-395","item-theme-acquisition-of-nationality","item-theme-identity-documents","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10886,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885\/revisions\/10886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}