{"id":10356,"date":"2016-09-14T14:26:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T14:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/nigeria-un-cso-launch-project-against-statelessness\/?lang=fr"},"modified":"2016-10-16T14:19:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T14:19:46","slug":"nigeria-un-cso-launch-project-against-statelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/nigeria-un-cso-launch-project-against-statelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: UN, Cso Launch Project Against Statelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West African Civil Society Forum (WACSOF), with support from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), has launched a project aimed at reducing the risk of statelessness in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">The United Nations (UN) describes statelessness as a situation in which an individual is not considered a national by any state under the operation of its laws. Such a person is said to be invisible, without an identity and deprived of his or her fundamental human rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">WACSOF said more than 10 million stateless people worldwide with more than 750,000 found in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">The Acting General Secretary of WACSOF, Auwal Ibrahim Musa Rafsanjani said in a statement that the project titled: \u00ab\u00a0Reducing risk of statelessness in Nigeria through research, advocacy and empowerment\/sensitization of national authorities, Civil Society Organizations and other stakeholders,\u00a0\u00bb was aimed at supporting efforts towards the reduction of risks\/situations of statelessness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201609141008.html\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The West African Civil Society Forum (WACSOF), with support from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), has launched a project aimed at reducing the risk of statelessness in Nigeria. The United Nations (UN) describes statelessness as a situation in which an individual is not considered a national by any state under the operation [&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":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-afrique-de-l-ouest","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-395","item-theme-apatridie"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10357,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356\/revisions\/10357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}