{"id":25295,"date":"2019-11-05T11:40:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T11:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=25295"},"modified":"2020-02-03T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T17:50:08","slug":"zimbabwe-children-born-to-alien-parents-fail-to-get-birth-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/zimbabwe-children-born-to-alien-parents-fail-to-get-birth-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Children born to \u2018alien\u2019 parents fail to get birth certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY JAMES MUONWA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has noted that a significant number of children born to alien parents are undocumented, thereby hindering their enjoyment of fundamental rights such as education and health. <span id=\"more-3096224744035940\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a Press briefing at Chinhoyi University of Technology yesterday, ZHRC deputy chairperson Ellen Sithole said accessing national documents such as birth certificates was a huge challenge countrywide, affecting many people, particularly in mining and farming communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccess to documentation is a fundamental human right guaranteed by the Constitution of Zimbabwe which facilitates the enjoyment of other human rights,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLack of access to birth certificates by a significant part of our population is of great concern to the commission from a human rights perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.co.zw\/2019\/11\/children-born-to-alien-parents-fail-to-get-birth-certificates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.newsday.co.zw\/2019\/11\/children-born-to-alien-parents-fail-to-get-birth-certificates\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BY JAMES MUONWA THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has noted that a significant number of children born to alien parents are undocumented, thereby hindering their enjoyment of fundamental rights such as education and health. Speaking at a Press briefing at Chinhoyi University of Technology yesterday, ZHRC deputy chairperson Ellen Sithole said accessing national documents [&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-25295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-zimbabwe","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25295","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=25295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25296,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25295\/revisions\/25296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}