{"id":1964,"date":"2015-08-01T13:50:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T13:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2015-08-01T13:50:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T13:50:46","slug":"thousands-of-unregistered-children-born-in-liberia-during-ebola-crisis-at-risk-of-exploitation-unicef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2015\/08\/01\/thousands-of-unregistered-children-born-in-liberia-during-ebola-crisis-at-risk-of-exploitation-unicef\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of unregistered children born in Liberia during Ebola crisis at risk of exploitation \u2013 UNICEF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) warned today that the more than 70,000 Liberian children whose births were not recorded during the Ebola outbreak may be unable to access basic health and social services, obtain identity documents, and risk the danger of being trafficked or illegally adopted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo child should suffer the indignity, or not have protection from a state or other entities, and be unable to access basic services that are every child&#8217;s right just because of a lack of a registered identity,\u201d Sheldon Yett, UNICEF\u2019s Representative in Liberia, said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot, and should never let that happen,\u201d Mr. Yett said in Monrovia, the Liberian capital.<\/p>\n<p>UNICEF said that birth registrations in 2014 and 2015 had dropped sharply from pre-Ebola levels (\u2026)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=51540#.VbzKILWErIV\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Read more in un.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) warned today that the more than 70,000 Liberian children whose births were not recorded during the Ebola outbreak may be unable to access basic health and social services, obtain identity documents, and risk the danger of being trafficked or illegally adopted. \u201cNo child should suffer the indignity, or not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,640,296],"tags":[68,191,329,582,225],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa","category-recent-news","category-reports","tag-children","tag-crisis","tag-ebola","tag-liberia","tag-unicef"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}