{"id":28,"date":"2015-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/mps-agree-on-plan-to-tackle-statelessness\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T06:42:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:42:28","slug":"mps-agree-on-plan-to-tackle-statelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/mps-agree-on-plan-to-tackle-statelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Global MPs agree on plan to tackle statelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A problem which has a devastating impact on the lives of more than 10 million people globally\u201a statelessness is an often under-reported and growing issue with one child born every 10 minutes without a nationality\u201a according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).<\/p>\n<p>MPs at the conference organised by IPU\u201a the South African Parliament and the UN refugee agency UNHCR in Cape Town\u201a agreed to work to resolve statelessness in their own countries through a wide range of measures.<\/p>\n<p>These included reviewing national legislation to ensure international standards on preventing and resolving statelessness were met\u201a advocating reform of laws that discriminated on the basis of race\u201a ethnicity\u201a religion or gender\u201a and the strengthening of parliamentary oversight of government policies on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2015\/12\/03\/MPs-agree-on-plan-to-tackle-statelessness\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A problem which has a devastating impact on the lives of more than 10 million people globally\u201a statelessness is an often under-reported and growing issue with one child born every 10 minutes without a nationality\u201a according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). MPs at the conference organised by IPU\u201a the South African Parliament and the UN [&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-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","region-southern-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-396","item-theme-acquisition-of-nationality","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12646,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/12646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}