{"id":47546,"date":"2022-08-17T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/17\/papua-new-guineas-undocumented-children-face-perfect-storm-of-vulnerability"},"modified":"2022-08-17T05:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T20:00:01","slug":"papua-new-guineas-undocumented-children-face-perfect-storm-of-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47546","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea\u2019s undocumented children face \u2018perfect storm of vulnerability\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just 15% of children in PNG have their birth registered. Without a birth certificate, trafficking and exploitation are far easier<\/p>\n<p>When 11-year-old Mary\u2019s mother remarried after her husband\u2019s death, Mary was left in the care of an aunt who exploited her.<\/p>\n<p>Her aunt sent Mary out on to the streets of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea\u2019s capital, to sell small goods and forced her to slave at domestic work around the house. Mary has never been to school and is illiterate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/17\/papua-new-guineas-undocumented-children-face-perfect-storm-of-vulnerability\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just 15% of children in PNG have their birth registered. Without a birth certificate, trafficking and exploitation are far easierWhen 11-year-old Mary\u2019s mother remarried after her husband\u2019s death, Mary was left in the care of an aunt who exploited her&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1536,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,574,243,245,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-child-labour","category-child-protection","category-children","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47547,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47546\/revisions\/47547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}