Gambia Refugee Commission, partners assess statelessness in Gambia
Published: 4/Nov/2024
Source: The Point (Banjul)
The Gambia Commission for Refugees (GCR), in partnership with The Gambia Immigration Department, and GAFNA on Friday, November 1st ended a week-long assessment of statelessness in Ghana Town, in Brufut, West Coast Region.
The initiative is supported by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).
Speaking at the forum, Ebriama Manneh, Commissioner for GCR, said: “The exercise was a follow-up to the recommendations from the last Executive Meeting of the World Refugees Forum held in Geneva in which he, and Hon. Abdoulie Sanyang, Minister for Interior represented The Gambia.”
The Gambia, he went on, “draws inspiration from the vision of the ‘I-Belong Campaign’, which calls for concerted efforts by all contracting parties to the 1954 and 1961 Conventions to eradicate or reduce statelessness in their states.”
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