{"id":484,"date":"2011-10-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/case-watch-an-african-victory-in-the-struggle-against-statelessness\/"},"modified":"2016-09-05T14:43:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T14:43:02","slug":"case-watch-an-african-victory-in-the-struggle-against-statelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/case-watch-an-african-victory-in-the-struggle-against-statelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Case watch: An African victory in the struggle against statelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Laura Bingham, legal officer for the equality\/citizenship issue area of the Open Society Justice Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>A decision by an African regional children\u2019s rights committee delivered on behalf of tens of thousands of children in Kenya who grow up without citizenship rights has set a new standard for tribunals\u00a0 both in Africa and around the world in the battle against statelessness. The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child\u00a0 (ACERWC) said in a decision released on September 30 that Kenya\u2019s laws and practices related to acquisition and proof of citizenship discriminate against children from its Nubian minority,\u00a0 based on their ethnicity, leaving Nubian children stateless or vulnerable to statelessness.<\/p>\n<p>Read further on OSF website :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soros.org\/voices\/case-watch-african-victory-struggle-against-statelessness\">Case Watch: An African Victory in the Struggle against Statelessness<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Laura Bingham, legal officer for the equality\/citizenship issue area of the Open Society Justice Initiative. A decision by an African regional children\u2019s rights committee delivered on behalf of tens of thousands of children in Kenya who grow up without citizenship rights has set a new standard for tribunals\u00a0 both in Africa and around the [&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-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-east-africa","region-kenya","type-blog-posts","item-year-489","item-theme-african-standards","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","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=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10035,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/10035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}