{"id":33298,"date":"2021-09-02T16:44:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=33298"},"modified":"2022-02-25T14:34:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T14:34:45","slug":"long-awaited-nationality-for-asian-stateless-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/long-awaited-nationality-for-asian-stateless-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-awaited nationality for Asian stateless in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>4 decades ago, this issue began by a change in law, split families, and changed a whole generation of people. On the wayside got left behind roughly 4 to 5 dozen individuals. Extremely marginalized.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, 02 September 2021, a celebratory ceremony was hosted at KFEET (Karura Forest Environmental Education Trust) grounds to issue certificates of citizenship to stateless members of the Asian Community currently residing in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament passed the Citizenship and Immigration Act as the law to govern issues of statelessness in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Download press release: <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Kenyan-Asian-Statelessness-Eradication-Press-Release-2Sept2021.pdf\">Kenyan Asian Statelessness Eradication Press Release 2Sept2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download summary of the work of the Kenyan Asian Statelessness Eradication Initiative: <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Kenyan-Asian-Statelessness-Eradication-Initiative-Sept2021.pdf\">Kenyan Asian Statelessness Eradication Initiative Sept2021<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4 decades ago, this issue began by a change in law, split families, and changed a whole generation of people. On the wayside got left behind roughly 4 to 5 dozen individuals. Extremely marginalized. On Thursday, 02 September 2021, a celebratory ceremony was hosted at KFEET (Karura Forest Environmental Education Trust) grounds to issue certificates [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[686],"class_list":["post-33298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kenyan_asian","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-676","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33298","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=33298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33304,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33298\/revisions\/33304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}