{"id":36235,"date":"2022-07-18T09:31:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T09:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=36235"},"modified":"2022-07-20T09:34:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T09:34:40","slug":"uganda-government-faces-lawsuit-for-omitting-nationality-info-in-id-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/uganda-government-faces-lawsuit-for-omitting-nationality-info-in-id-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Government Faces Lawsuit for \u2018Omitting Nationality Info\u2019 In ID Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Uganda is set to be dragged to courts law for omitting\u00a0 information about \u201ccitizenship by descent\u201d in the registration process for national Identity Cards.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit is being brought by the National Economic Empowerment Dialogue (NEED), under the stewardship of former presidential candidate Joseph Kabuleta.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kabuleta told press on Monday that he personally took issue with the fact that the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) does not include on its biodata forms, information about one\u2019s own heritage and ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>Kabuleta says Uganda is the only country in the Common Wealth nations which doesn\u2019t consider citizenship by descent, which he says is unfair especially to persons born by Ugandan citizens outside the country.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/chimpreports.com\/government-faces-lawsuit-for-omitting-nationality-info-in-id-registration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/chimpreports.com\/government-faces-lawsuit-for-omitting-nationality-info-in-id-registration\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Government of Uganda is set to be dragged to courts law for omitting\u00a0 information about \u201ccitizenship by descent\u201d in the registration process for national Identity Cards. The lawsuit is being brought by the National Economic Empowerment Dialogue (NEED), under the stewardship of former presidential candidate Joseph Kabuleta. Mr Kabuleta told press on Monday that [&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-36235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-uganda","type-news-articles","item-year-683","item-theme-acquisition-by-children"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36235","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=36235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36238,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36235\/revisions\/36238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}