{"id":263,"date":"2015-01-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/the-right-to-belong-ending-statelessness-in-west-africa\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T07:12:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:12:09","slug":"the-right-to-belong-ending-statelessness-in-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/the-right-to-belong-ending-statelessness-in-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right to Belong: Ending statelessness in West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary, a Liberian refugee born in Liberia to Liberian parents, gave birth to a child in 2003 in Ghana where she is now resident.<\/p>\n<p>The father of the child is unknown; neither can the mother trace any relative of the man who fathered her child.<\/p>\n<p>According to Act 20 (1) of the Liberian Constitution, \u201cThe following shall be citizens of Liberia at birth\u2026 (b) a person born outside Liberia whose father (i) was born a citizen of Liberia (ii) was a citizen of Liberia at the time of the birth of such child and (iii) has resided in Liberia prior to the birth of such child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 1992 Constitution of Ghana also states in article 7: \u201cA person is a citizen of Ghana by birth if he was born in or outside Ghana and at the date of his birth either of his parents or one grandparent was or is a citizen of Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modernghana.com\/news\/591219\/the-right-to-belong-ending-statelessness-in-west-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary, a Liberian refugee born in Liberia to Liberian parents, gave birth to a child in 2003 in Ghana where she is now resident. The father of the child is unknown; neither can the mother trace any relative of the man who fathered her child. According to Act 20 (1) of the Liberian Constitution, \u201cThe [&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-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-ghana","region-liberia","type-news-articles","item-year-396","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\/263","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=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4196,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/4196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}