{"id":20980,"date":"2018-12-07T17:10:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=20980"},"modified":"2018-12-08T17:13:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T17:13:27","slug":"south-africa-stateless-children-falling-through-the-cracks-of-citizenship-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/south-africa-stateless-children-falling-through-the-cracks-of-citizenship-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Stateless children: Falling through the cracks of citizenship laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is great misinformation surrounding statelessness and particularly the rights of children in this respect. Lusungu Kanyama Phiri works at Lawyers for Human Rights and is concentrated on\u00a0their statelessness project. Phiri laments that &#8220;there&#8217;s no legislation that protects stateless people or those who are at risk of being stateless&#8221;. \u00a0There appears to be a disconnect between South Africa&#8217;s practice and the multiple UN Conventions, to which the country is a signatory, that seek to protect against statelessness. \u00a0In this three-minute video some of the issues surrounding this growing problem are addressed.<\/p>\n<p>View:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uNQtO8L9ExA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uNQtO8L9ExA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is great misinformation surrounding statelessness and particularly the rights of children in this respect. Lusungu Kanyama Phiri works at Lawyers for Human Rights and is concentrated on\u00a0their statelessness project. Phiri laments that &#8220;there&#8217;s no legislation that protects stateless people or those who are at risk of being stateless&#8221;. \u00a0There appears to be a disconnect [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-audio-and-video","item-year-642","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20980","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=20980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20981,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20980\/revisions\/20981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}