{"id":23157,"date":"2019-07-09T19:11:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T19:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=23157"},"modified":"2019-07-09T19:11:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T19:11:30","slug":"south-africa-concern-over-high-number-of-migrant-children-with-no-proof-of-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/south-africa-concern-over-high-number-of-migrant-children-with-no-proof-of-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Concern over high number of migrant children with no proof of birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <span data-reactid=\".484gf62h36.1.e.0.0.0.4.2.3\">\u00a0<\/span>Yolisa Tswanya<\/p>\n<p>Cape Town \u2013 Nearly 30% of foreign children in youth and care centres in the Western Cape have no documents of proof of birth.<\/p>\n<p>This was among the findings of a breakthrough study by the Scalabrini Centre in Cape Town. The centre offers specialised services to migrants, refugees and South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>The report found that many foreign children in South Africa faced a high risk of statelessness, meaning they were not considered nationals by any state under law.<\/p>\n<p>Study author and Scalabrini Centre spokesperson Lotte Manicom said the aim of the study was to establish the number of foreign children in care, and gain a deeper understanding of the issues and challenges faced by the children as well as the institutions caring for them.<\/p>\n<p>She said it was found that 40% of all children faced statelessness, with a further 47% being at considerable risk in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Gauteng, 27% of foreign children in child and youth care centres have no documents or proof of birth. In Limpopo, this percentage is as high as 82%, while in the Western Cape it is at 27%.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/capetimes\/news\/concern-over-high-number-of-migrant-children-with-no-proof-of-birth-28924679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/capetimes\/news\/concern-over-high-number-of-migrant-children-with-no-proof-of-birth-28924679<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By \u00a0Yolisa Tswanya Cape Town \u2013 Nearly 30% of foreign children in youth and care centres in the Western Cape have no documents of proof of birth. This was among the findings of a breakthrough study by the Scalabrini Centre in Cape Town. The centre offers specialised services to migrants, refugees and South Africans. 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":[499,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-uncategorized","region-afrique-du-sud-2","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-660","item-theme-acquisition-par-les-enfants","item-theme-enregistrement-des-naissances"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23157","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=23157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23158,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23157\/revisions\/23158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}