{"id":43071,"date":"2026-04-27T17:31:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=43071"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:36:42","slug":"zambia-court-rules-children-born-to-refugees-eligible-for-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/zambia-court-rules-children-born-to-refugees-eligible-for-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia court rules children born to refugees eligible for citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia\u2019s Constitutional Court of Zambia has ruled that children born in the country to refugee parents are eligible for citizenship, in a landmark decision on nationality rights.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling follows a petition filed by the Zambian Civil Liberties Union (ZCLU), which challenged restrictions affecting refugees and their children under the Constitution and the Refugees Act.<\/p>\n<p>ZCLU, supported by the Global Strategic Litigation Council as amicus curiae, argued that the provisions violated Articles 266 and 37 of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>In a unanimous decision by a seven-judge panel, delivered by Justice Musaluke, the court affirmed that constitutional principles on nationality are grounded in birth and descent.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zambiamonitor.com\/zambia-court-rules-children-born-to-refugees-eligible-for-citizenship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zambiamonitor.com\/zambia-court-rules-children-born-to-refugees-eligible-for-citizenship\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zambia\u2019s Constitutional Court of Zambia has ruled that children born in the country to refugee parents are eligible for citizenship, in a landmark decision on nationality rights. The ruling follows a petition filed by the Zambian Civil Liberties Union (ZCLU), which challenged restrictions affecting refugees and their children under the Constitution and the Refugees Act. [&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-43071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-zambia","type-news-articles","item-year-699","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-nationality-and-refugees"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43071","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=43071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43073,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43071\/revisions\/43073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}