{"id":16261,"date":"2018-03-02T15:41:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T15:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=16261"},"modified":"2018-03-04T15:43:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T15:43:06","slug":"liberians-in-diaspora-campaign-against-citizenship-for-non-negro-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/liberians-in-diaspora-campaign-against-citizenship-for-non-negro-descent\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberians in Diaspora Campaign Against Citizenship For Non-Negro Descent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Monrovia<\/strong> \u2013 Concerned diaspora Liberians based in the United States under the banner \u201cLiberians in Defense of Article 27 (LIDA27\u201d has launched a campaign to oppose the amendment of Article 27 of the Liberian Constitution, which bars people of non-negro descent from attaining Liberian citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of the LIDA27, Jerome Z. Gayman, said the campaign is in response to President George Weah\u2019s Annual Message to the 54<sup>th<\/sup> National Legislature where he described the Liberian Constitution as racist and called for the amendment of Article 27 of the Liberian Constitution to grant citizenship to non-negro descent.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpageafricaonline.com\/index.php\/news\/7097-liberians-in-diaspora-campaign-against-citizenship-for-non-negro-descent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.frontpageafricaonline.com\/index.php\/news\/7097-liberians-in-diaspora-campaign-against-citizenship-for-non-negro-descent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monrovia \u2013 Concerned diaspora Liberians based in the United States under the banner \u201cLiberians in Defense of Article 27 (LIDA27\u201d has launched a campaign to oppose the amendment of Article 27 of the Liberian Constitution, which bars people of non-negro descent from attaining Liberian citizenship. The Chairman of the LIDA27, Jerome Z. Gayman, said the [&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-16261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-liberia","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-dual-nationality","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16261","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=16261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16262,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16261\/revisions\/16262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}