{"id":36915,"date":"2022-08-22T09:17:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T09:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=36915"},"modified":"2022-11-22T09:19:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T09:19:49","slug":"submission-to-the-south-african-human-rights-commission-on-dha-blocking-identity-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/submission-to-the-south-african-human-rights-commission-on-dha-blocking-identity-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Submission to the South African Human Rights Commission on DHA \u201cblocking\u201d identity documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"resources-intro-content\">\n<p>The South African Human Rights Commission intends to investigate the practice by the Department of Home Affairs of placing markers on holders\u2019 identity documents (\u201cIDs\u201d) at a systemic level \u2013 the practice known as \u201cblocking\u201d or \u201cblocked IDs\u201d. Lawyers for Human Rights made written submissions to the Commission explaining how this practice makes the statelessness crisis in South Africa even worse than it already is, and suggested solutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Download the\u00a0<a class=\"text-color-green\" href=\"https:\/\/lawyersforhumanrights.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/LHR-Submissions-to-SAHRC-on-blocked-IDs-2022-08-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full report here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South African Human Rights Commission intends to investigate the practice by the Department of Home Affairs of placing markers on holders\u2019 identity documents (\u201cIDs\u201d) at a systemic level \u2013 the practice known as \u201cblocking\u201d or \u201cblocked IDs\u201d. Lawyers for Human Rights made written submissions to the Commission explaining how this practice makes the statelessness [&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":[],"class_list":["post-36915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-ngos-and-experts","type-reports","item-year-683","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36915","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=36915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36916,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36915\/revisions\/36916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}