{"id":19430,"date":"2018-07-19T10:56:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T10:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=19430"},"modified":"2020-07-30T13:41:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T13:41:05","slug":"awareness-campaigns-encourage-drc-citizens-to-register-for-birth-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/awareness-campaigns-encourage-drc-citizens-to-register-for-birth-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness Campaigns Encourage DRC Citizens to Register for Birth Certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-summary test\">\n<p>KIRUMBA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO \u2014 In Kirumba, a village in DRC\u2019s northeastern Lubero territory, land ownership is the basis of all wealth. It\u2019s also a matter of succession \u2013 a person inherits land from his or her parents. But not without a birth certificate. Bea Masika, a Kirumba resident, tells a cautionary tale about land ownership. She grew up with her mother at her grandparents\u2019 home and was registered for a birth certificate that listed her grandfather instead of her father. \u201cThat is the reason why I did not have the right to my biological father\u2019s inheritance,\u201d Masika says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalpressjournal.com\/africa\/democratic-republic-of-congo\/awareness-campaigns-encourage-drc-citizens-register-birth-certificates\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KIRUMBA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO \u2014 In Kirumba, a village in DRC\u2019s northeastern Lubero territory, land ownership is the basis of all wealth. It\u2019s also a matter of succession \u2013 a person inherits land from his or her parents. But not without a birth certificate. Bea Masika, a Kirumba resident, tells a cautionary tale about [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":4,"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-19430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-central-africa","region-democratic-republic-of-congo","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-identity-documents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19430","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19431,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19430\/revisions\/19431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}