{"id":29640,"date":"2020-10-10T15:24:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T15:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=29640"},"modified":"2020-10-12T15:26:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T15:26:33","slug":"zimbabwe-rights-commission-decries-state-denial-of-ids-on-inter-sex-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/zimbabwe-rights-commission-decries-state-denial-of-ids-on-inter-sex-persons\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Rights Commission Decries State Denial of IDs on Inter-Sex Persons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has bemoaned the deprivation of national documentation on inter-sex persons, saying current national statutes only categorised hermaphrodites as male and female only.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">A ZHRC report on the National Inquiry on Access to Documentation says there is need for national identity documents to have provisions of inter-sex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">&#8220;Parents determine sex of inter-sex persons at an early age before puberty or when children are old enough to identify themselves as male or female.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8220;The law does not accommodate inter-sex persons who wish to change their sex on their identity documents as their bodies transform at puberty,&#8221; reads the report which was launched in Bulawayo Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The report also revealed that close to 2, 3 million of Zimbabwean children below the age of 18 have no birth certificates, a development which has led to children dropping out of school.<\/p>\n<p data-para-word-count=\"33\">Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newzimbabwe.com\/rights-commission-decries-state-denial-of-ids-on-inter-sex-persons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.newzimbabwe.com\/rights-commission-decries-state-denial-of-ids-on-inter-sex-persons\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has bemoaned the deprivation of national documentation on inter-sex persons, saying current national statutes only categorised hermaphrodites as male and female only. A ZHRC report on the National Inquiry on Access to Documentation says there is need for national identity documents to have provisions of inter-sex. &#8220;Parents determine sex [&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-29640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-zimbabwe","type-news-articles","item-year-668","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-gender","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29640","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=29640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29641,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29640\/revisions\/29641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}