{"id":13261,"date":"2017-05-29T08:39:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T08:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=13261"},"modified":"2017-05-30T09:03:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T09:03:31","slug":"govt-urged-to-deal-with-statelessness-rights-and-welfare-of-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/govt-urged-to-deal-with-statelessness-rights-and-welfare-of-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Govt urged to deal with statelessness, rights and welfare of children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOVERNMENT has been urged to accede to the 1954 United Nations Conventions relating to the status of stateless persons and the 1961 UN convention on the reduction of statelessness, as well as to expedite the implementation of Article 6 (4) of the African Charter on the rights and welfare of the child.<span id=\"more-3096224743963055\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>by VENERANDA LANGA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The issues came out in a report presented in Senate last week by Midlands senator Lillian Timveous (MDC-T).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFailure to ratify the 1961 Convention to reduction of statelessness reflects negatively on the government of Zimbabwe\u2019s failure to fulfil citizen\u2019s social, economic, civil and political rights,\u201d Timveous said.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.co.zw\/2017\/05\/29\/govt-urged-deal-statelessness-rights-welfare-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.newsday.co.zw\/2017\/05\/29\/govt-urged-deal-statelessness-rights-welfare-children\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GOVERNMENT has been urged to accede to the 1954 United Nations Conventions relating to the status of stateless persons and the 1961 UN convention on the reduction of statelessness, as well as to expedite the implementation of Article 6 (4) of the African Charter on the rights and welfare of the child. by VENERANDA LANGA [&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-13261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-zimbabwe","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-identity-documents","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261","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=13261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13266,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261\/revisions\/13266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}