{"id":183661,"date":"2024-10-31T12:54:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T10:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-children-in-zimbabwe-trapped-in-statelessness-as-bureaucratic-failures-persist\/"},"modified":"2024-10-31T12:54:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T10:54:46","slug":"zimbabwe-children-in-zimbabwe-trapped-in-statelessness-as-bureaucratic-failures-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-children-in-zimbabwe-trapped-in-statelessness-as-bureaucratic-failures-persist\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Children in Zimbabwe Trapped in Statelessness As Bureaucratic Failures Persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Thousands of children in Zimbabwe are at risk of statelessness due to the government&#8217;s failure to address a growing crisis that violates their basic rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The lack of birth registration among children born to stateless parents is creating a generation deprived of nationality and the essential services that come with citizenship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">This ongoing issue threatens their present and future, as human rights organisations and legal experts raise alarms over the government&#8217;s inaction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The United Nations&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410310012.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of children in Zimbabwe are at risk of statelessness due to the government&#8217;s failure to address a growing crisis that violates their basic rights. The lack of birth registration among children born to stateless parents is creating a generation deprived of nationality and the essential services that come with citizenship. This ongoing issue threatens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,49860,7371,23961,257,19613,254,49859,11323,4686,421],"class_list":["post-183661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bureaucratic","tag-children","tag-failures","tag-news","tag-persist","tag-south-africa-today","tag-statelessness","tag-trapped","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}