{"id":30215,"date":"2020-09-28T09:24:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T09:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=30215"},"modified":"2020-11-23T09:28:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T09:28:12","slug":"drc-with-birth-certificates-137-children-in-nyiragongo-can-say-i-belong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/drc-with-birth-certificates-137-children-in-nyiragongo-can-say-i-belong\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC: With birth certificates, 137 children in Nyiragongo can say \u201cI belong\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"7e0d\" class=\"fm cz ep as b fn fo fp fq fr fs ft fu fv fw fx fy fz ga gb gc bq\"><em>How the Women Lawyers\u2019 Movement is helping families in DRC use the legal system to benefit children<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Like many parents in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nicole Kahindo had never thought about birth certificates. \u201cI only knew that, as long as my husband and his family recognized our children, and that would suffice for life to go on. No one could contest their paternity,\u201d she said. When Nicole\u2019s husband abandoned her and their three children, she learned an awful lesson: informal recognition by family members is no substitute for legal status. In sub-Sarahan Africa, 95 million children are in the same predicament \u2014 without legal status for want of a birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@easterncongo\/with-birth-certificates-137-children-in-nyiragongo-can-say-i-belong-3d10181c8a8a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/medium.com\/@easterncongo\/with-birth-certificates-137-children-in-nyiragongo-can-say-i-belong-3d10181c8a8a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How the Women Lawyers\u2019 Movement is helping families in DRC use the legal system to benefit children Like many parents in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nicole Kahindo had never thought about birth certificates. \u201cI only knew that, as long as my husband and his family recognized our children, and that would suffice for [&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-30215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-democratic-republic-of-congo","type-news-articles","item-year-668","item-theme-birth-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30215","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=30215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30218,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30215\/revisions\/30218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}