{"id":5128,"date":"2020-12-29T16:29:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/29\/un-finds-netherlands-violated-human-rights-of-stateless-child"},"modified":"2020-12-29T16:29:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:29:43","slug":"un-finds-netherlands-violated-human-rights-of-stateless-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/29\/un-finds-netherlands-violated-human-rights-of-stateless-child\/","title":{"rendered":"UN finds Netherlands violated human rights of stateless child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch authorities left 10-year-old without legal protection by registering him as \u2018nationality unknown\u2019<br><\/p><p>The Netherlands violated a child\u2019s rights by failing to acknowledge that he was stateless and eligible for international protection, a UN committee has found, urging the country to change its legislation.<\/p><p>In its first ever decision on the right of children to acquire nationality, the UN Human Rights Committee determined on Tuesday that by registering the child as \u201cnationality unknown\u201d, the Dutch authorities had violated his right to international protection and also to seek a nationality.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/29\/un-finds-netherlands-violated-human-rights-of-stateless-child\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/29\/un-finds-netherlands-violated-human-rights-of-stateless-child\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch authorities left 10-year-old without legal protection by registering him as \u2018nationality unknown\u2019The Netherlands violated a child\u2019s rights by failing to acknowledge that he was stateless and eligible for international protection, a UN committee h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,6,691,111,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5129,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128\/revisions\/5129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}