{"id":135,"date":"2015-05-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/questions-of-legal-identity-in-the-post-2015-development-agenda\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T06:53:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:53:39","slug":"questions-of-legal-identity-in-the-post-2015-development-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/questions-of-legal-identity-in-the-post-2015-development-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions of legal identity in the post-2015 development agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN has proposed that providing a \u201clegal identity for all\u201d is one of its Sustainable Development Goals, yet proposes to measure progress against this goal simply in terms of birth registration rates. Edgar A. Whitley and Bronwen Manby explore the complex relationship between birth registration and legal identity from a legal and management perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Edgar A. Whitley is an Associate Professor (Reader) of Information Systems at the LSE Department of Management and Bronwen Manby is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE Centre for the Study of Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>Is birth registration a suitable indicator for legal identity? Questions of identity and documentation have become increasingly important parts of the global policy agenda in recent years and are included in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will replace the UN\u2019s eight Millennium Development Goals. In particular, goal 16.9 is: \u201cBy 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/humanrights\/2015\/05\/28\/questions-of-legal-identity-in-the-post-2015-development-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UN has proposed that providing a \u201clegal identity for all\u201d is one of its Sustainable Development Goals, yet proposes to measure progress against this goal simply in terms of birth registration rates. Edgar A. Whitley and Bronwen Manby explore the complex relationship between birth registration and legal identity from a legal and management perspective. [&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-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-pan-africa","type-blog-posts","item-year-396","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-identity-documents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","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=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4070,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/4070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}