{"id":363,"date":"2017-12-15T16:26:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/?p=363"},"modified":"2018-04-23T08:41:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T08:41:04","slug":"nigeria-100000-internally-displaced-receive-biometric-id-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/nigeria-100000-internally-displaced-receive-biometric-id-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: 100,000 internally displaced receive biometric ID Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_364\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-364\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2017\/12\/south-sudan-1-2-720x405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2017\/12\/south-sudan-1-2-720x405.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2017\/12\/south-sudan-1-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2017\/12\/south-sudan-1-2-1080x608.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2017\/12\/south-sudan-1-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN \/ AFP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The registration and issuance of tokens to 100,000 persons has started in Maiduguri (Borno State) in North-Eastern Nigeria. In this area, millions were forcibly displaced, most of them with no identity documents.<\/p>\n<p>During the Boko Haram insurgency in recent years, many government offices, including civil registry offices, were destroyed.\u00a0For Antonio Canhandula, UNHCR Representative in Nigeria, identification is a major concern for the freedom of movement of IDPs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn conflict zones, where movement control becomes a necessary strategy, we felt it important to encourage the government to extend to, and indicate Borno State as a priority area for biometric ID card emission, so as to help resolve one of the most important protection issues: lack of documentation that negatively impacts on the freedom of movement.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read the full story in The Guardian, click <a href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/news\/nimc-unhcr-to-enroll-100000-displaced-persons-in-e-identity-card\/amp\/?__twitter_impression=true\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The registration and issuance of tokens to 100,000 persons has started in Maiduguri (Borno State) in North-Eastern Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-inclusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}