{"id":16580,"date":"2018-04-05T15:57:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=16580"},"modified":"2018-04-05T15:57:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:57:33","slug":"zimbabwe-mudede-birth-row-spills-into-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/zimbabwe-mudede-birth-row-spills-into-high-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mudede Birth Row Spills Into High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite class=\"byline\">By Daniel Nemukuyu<\/cite><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The Registrar-General, Mr Tobaiwa Mudede, is being sued at the High Court for turning down requests by men who wish to acquire birth certificates for their children in the absence of the minors&#8217; mothers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The RG&#8217;s Office allows requests by women seeking birth certificates on behalf of their children without conducting any tests to prove paternity, but the same office stands accused of discriminating against men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Children who apply for birth certificates through their fathers are being denied the right to the official document due to policies at the RG&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201804050572.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201804050572.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Daniel Nemukuyu The Registrar-General, Mr Tobaiwa Mudede, is being sued at the High Court for turning down requests by men who wish to acquire birth certificates for their children in the absence of the minors&#8217; mothers. The RG&#8217;s Office allows requests by women seeking birth certificates on behalf of their children without conducting any [&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-16580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-zimbabwe","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-birth-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16580","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=16580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16581,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16580\/revisions\/16581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}