{"id":12905,"date":"2017-04-12T17:34:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T17:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=12905"},"modified":"2017-04-16T17:38:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T17:38:18","slug":"sa-birth-registration-law-cops-flak-from-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/sa-birth-registration-law-cops-flak-from-un\/","title":{"rendered":"SA birth registration law cops flak from UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Bronwyn Davids<\/p>\n<p>Cape Town \u2013 The UN Committee of the Rights of the Child has castigated South Africa for not changing its Birth and Death Registration Act which discriminates against children born in this country to foreign parents.<\/p>\n<p>It said the law is \u201cproblematic\u201d because it had a \u201cpunitive or discriminatory impact on certain groups of children\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read further:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/capeargus\/news\/sa-birth-registration-law-cops-flak-from-un-8641704\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/capeargus\/news\/sa-birth-registration-law-cops-flak-from-un-8641704<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Bronwyn Davids Cape Town \u2013 The UN Committee of the Rights of the Child has castigated South Africa for not changing its Birth and Death Registration Act which discriminates against children born in this country to foreign parents. It said the law is \u201cproblematic\u201d because it had a \u201cpunitive or discriminatory impact on certain [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[],"class_list":["post-12905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-international-standards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12906,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions\/12906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}