{"id":13102,"date":"2017-05-08T16:20:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T16:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=13102"},"modified":"2017-05-09T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T16:22:05","slug":"west-africa-to-fight-statelessness-with-worlds-first-action-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/west-africa-to-fight-statelessness-with-worlds-first-action-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa to fight statelessness with world&rsquo;s first action plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-byline\"><span class=\"author\">By Kieran Guilbert<\/span><\/div>\n<p>DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) &#8211; West Africa has become the first region in the world to adopt an action plan to end statelessness, aiming to help more than one million people without a nationality gain identity papers with new laws and better data, human rights experts said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Stateless people, sometimes referred to as legal ghosts, are not accepted as citizens by any country, which means they are denied basic rights &#8211; leaving many unable to work or access healthcare &#8211; and are vulnerable to exploitation and traffickers.<\/p>\n<p>State officials and representatives of the regional bloc ECOWAS and the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR met in Gambia to adopt a plan to improve the lives of at least one million people thought to be stateless, or at risk of statelessness, in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-westafrica-stateless-idUSKBN18420I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-westafrica-stateless-idUSKBN18420I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) &#8211; West Africa has become the first region in the world to adopt an action plan to end statelessness, aiming to help more than one million people without a nationality gain identity papers with new laws and better data, human rights experts said on Monday. Stateless people, sometimes [&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":[499,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-uncategorized","region-afrique-de-l-ouest","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-631","item-theme-apatridie"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13102","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13103,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13102\/revisions\/13103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}