{"id":30045,"date":"2020-11-01T19:34:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T19:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=30045"},"modified":"2020-11-03T19:38:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T19:38:24","slug":"joint-submission-to-the-committee-on-the-rights-of-the-child-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/joint-submission-to-the-committee-on-the-rights-of-the-child-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child: South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>88th Pre-Sessional Working Group 08 -12 February 2021<\/p>\n<p>The Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), the Centre for Child Law and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (the Institute) welcome the opportunity to make this submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (the Committee) regarding South Africa\u2019s compliance with the right of every child to acquire a nationality under Article 7 CRC and preserve their nationality under Article 8 CRC. This submission also draws on the Guiding Principles of the Convention, in particular, the freedom from discrimination (Article 2) and the best interests of the child (Article 3).<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The issues of concern highlighted in this submission cover four areas:<br \/>\nI.Access to citizenship<br \/>\nII.Access to birth registration<br \/>\nIII.Blocked IDs and resultant barriers in accessing citizenship<br \/>\nIV.Lack of a statelessness determination procedure<\/p>\n<p>Download from Institute on Statelessness &amp; Inclusion: <a href=\"https:\/\/files.institutesi.org\/CRC88_South_Africa.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/files.institutesi.org\/CRC88_South_Africa.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"88th Pre-Sessional Working Group 08 -12 February 2021 The Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), the Centre for Child Law and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (the Institute) welcome the opportunity to make this submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (the Committee) regarding South Africa\u2019s compliance [&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-30045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-ngos-and-experts","type-reports","item-year-668","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports","item-theme-international-standards","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30045","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=30045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30048,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30045\/revisions\/30048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}