{"id":9030,"date":"2016-08-08T10:54:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T10:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=9030"},"modified":"2016-08-10T08:06:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T08:06:29","slug":"birth-certificate-a-vital-document-many-liberians-have-never-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/birth-certificate-a-vital-document-many-liberians-have-never-heard-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth certificate: a vital document many Liberians have never heard of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Twachekwa, 52, had no idea she needed a birth certificate to get a passport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been asked to attend a church conference in America. I went to apply for a passport and they asked for my birth certificate. It was the first time I knew about the need for one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twachekwa is waiting in a queue that snakes past rows of plastic chairs and spills out into the corridor at Monrovia\u2019s bureau of statistics in the hope of getting her birth registered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2016\/aug\/05\/birth-certificate-a-vital-document-many-liberians-have-never-heard-of?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Read More.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary Twachekwa, 52, had no idea she needed a birth certificate to get a passport. \u201cI have been asked to attend a church conference in America. I went to apply for a passport and they asked for my birth certificate. It was the first time I knew about the need for one.\u201d Twachekwa is waiting [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":4,"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-9030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-liberia","region-west-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-395","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-identity-documents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9057,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions\/9057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}