{"id":23682,"date":"2019-08-13T16:41:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T16:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=23682"},"modified":"2019-10-04T23:13:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T23:13:38","slug":"key-policy-positions-for-consideration-by-the-39th-ordinary-summit-of-sadc-heads-of-state-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/key-policy-positions-for-consideration-by-the-39th-ordinary-summit-of-sadc-heads-of-state-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Policy Positions for Consideration by the 39th Ordinary Summit of SADC Heads of State &#038; Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern African Civil Society Forum (CSF) has gathered annually since 2005, bringing together the diversity of civic formations in the region, ranging from faith-based, trade union and non-governmental organisations to express themselves on matters of mutual and shared importance relating to SADC.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>We call on Member States to carefully consider, and take into account these reasoned calls as they deliberate on the next steps of our journey, as SADC towards a free, prosperous and inclusive Africa underpinned by justice for all.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>15. Statelessness<\/p>\n<p>We call upon all SADC Member States to address statelessness in their territories by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Developing a National Action Plan to end statelessness by 2024, including a plan to identify and resolving stateless situations;<\/li>\n<li>Supporting the African Union\u2019s Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples\u2019 Rights on the Specific Aspects of the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa, which addresses Africa\u2019s unique challenges.<\/li>\n<li>Ratifying the 1954 UN Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 UN Convention on the Prevention of Statelessness at the UNHCR Excom High-Level Segment during on Statelessness in Geneva on 7 October 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download: <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Declaration-of-15th-Civil-Society-Forum-Aug2019-Tanzania.pdf\">Declaration of 15th Civil Society Forum Aug2019 Tanzania<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Southern African Civil Society Forum (CSF) has gathered annually since 2005, bringing together the diversity of civic formations in the region, ranging from faith-based, trade union and non-governmental organisations to express themselves on matters of mutual and shared importance relating to SADC. [&#8230;] We call on Member States to carefully consider, and take into [&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-23682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-southern-africa","type-ngos-and-experts","type-reports","item-year-660","item-theme-statelessness","item-theme-sub-regional-standards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23682","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=23682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23684,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23682\/revisions\/23684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}