{"id":19553,"date":"2018-08-01T10:20:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T10:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=19553"},"modified":"2019-07-22T14:53:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:53:44","slug":"policy-brief-legal-identity-and-biometric-identification-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/policy-brief-legal-identity-and-biometric-identification-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Brief: \u201cLegal Identity\u201d and Biometric Identification in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Bronwen Manby<\/div>\n<p>There is near-universal consensus on the importance of \u201clegal identity\u201d as a foundation for economic development and respect for rights. But insufficient attention is paid to the risks attendant on a drive to roll out biometric identification systems in fulfilment of this promise<\/p>\n<p>Read the Newsletter of the American Political Science Association\u2019s Organized Section on Migration and Citizenship:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s43\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/08\/APSA-Migration-Citizenship-Newsletter-6-2-Summer-2018-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s43\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/08\/APSA-Migration-Citizenship-Newsletter-6-2-Summer-2018-.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download policy brief alone:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Manby_Legal-Identity-Biometric-Identification-Africa_APSAMigrationCitizenshipNewsletter_Summer-2018-pp54-59.pdf\">Manby_Legal-Identity-Biometric-Identification-Africa_APSAMigration&amp;CitizenshipNewsletter_Summer 2018 pp54-59<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Bronwen Manby There is near-universal consensus on the importance of \u201clegal identity\u201d as a foundation for economic development and respect for rights. But insufficient attention is paid to the risks attendant on a drive to roll out biometric identification systems in fulfilment of this promise Read the Newsletter of the American Political Science Association\u2019s [&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-19553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-pan-africa","type-ngos-and-experts","type-reports","item-year-642","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19553","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=19553"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23329,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19553\/revisions\/23329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}