{"id":21967,"date":"2019-02-28T10:19:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T10:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=21967"},"modified":"2019-02-28T12:21:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T12:21:11","slug":"citizens-of-nowhere-suffer-social-and-physical-deprivations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/citizens-of-nowhere-suffer-social-and-physical-deprivations\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens of nowhere suffer social and physical deprivations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Nezo Sobekwa, Luyanda Ndaba<\/p>\n<p>COMMENT<br \/>\n\u201cTo be stateless is like you don\u2019t exist; you live in a parallel world with no proof of your identity,\u201d says Leal in a United Nations Refugee Agency video, Voices of Stateless: Leal\u2019s Story \u2014 Lebanon. Her grandfather did not register her father\u2019s birth and thus he could not register Leal\u2019s birth. This means her marriage could not be registered and so she could not register the birth of her children.<\/p>\n<p>Leal is one of millions of people in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region who find themselves without a sense of identity or belonging.<\/p>\n<p>Living without a birth certificate or an identity document means in most countries no rights to housing, water, healthcare or basic education, as well as exclusion from meaningful participation in public life.<\/p>\n<p>Read further:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2019-02-28-00-citizens-of-nowhere-suffer-social-and-physical-deprivations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2019-02-28-00-citizens-of-nowhere-suffer-social-and-physical-deprivations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Nezo Sobekwa, Luyanda Ndaba COMMENT \u201cTo be stateless is like you don\u2019t exist; you live in a parallel world with no proof of your identity,\u201d says Leal in a United Nations Refugee Agency video, Voices of Stateless: Leal\u2019s Story \u2014 Lebanon. Her grandfather did not register her father\u2019s birth and thus he could not [&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-21967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-international","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-acquisition-of-nationality","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-gender","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21967","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=21967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21968,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21967\/revisions\/21968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}