Citizenship in Guinea-Bissau is controlled by Lei no.2/1992 as amended by Lei No.6/2010. and regulated by Decreto-Lei No.6/2011. The 2010 amendments provided for the attribution of nationality to a child born in Guinea Bissau who would otherwise be stateless, offered stronger protections against loss of Guinean nationality and permitted dual nationality for the first time. In addition, Lei No.7/2008 provides that a person born in Guinea Bissau of parents who both come from another lusophone country is attributed Bissauan nationality at birth. Guinea-Bissau has provided equal rights to men and women in transmission of nationality since it gained independence in 1976.
In 2016, the Government acceded to the Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (1954) and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961). In 2018, Guinea Bissau adopted a decree providing for the grant of nationality to approximately 10,000 long-term refugees resident in the country. In addition, a National Plan of Action (NAP) for the Eradication of Statelessness was elaborated and approved by the Minister of Justice and Human Rights in November 2018.
In 2013, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child expressed grave concern that the rate of birth registration had fallen from 2006 to 2010, and stood at only one quarter of births, and recommended law reform and other measures to reduce the risk of statelessness.
Including information on Benin, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Senegal, Sierra Leone & Togo. Extracts: Gambia Local integration remains the most viable option for Senegalese refugees. During the last verification exercise, the intention survey indicated that103 refugee households are willing to […]
UNHCR and the Government of #GuineaBissau have successfully concluded the process of issuing identity cards for refugees living in the country +5000 refugees have been naturalized UNHCR & the US Government commend Guinea-Bissau for its hospitality. U.S. Department of State: […]
Vários cidadãos franceses e de outras nacionalidades conseguiram em Paris um “passaporte diplomático” que os identificava como conselheiros da Guiné-Bissau na UNESCO e pelos quais pagaram entre 50 mil e 200 mil euros, noticia esta quarta-feira o jornal “Libération” O […]
«Libération» révèle que des hommes d’affaires et des repris de justice se rendaient dans une officine près des Champs-Elysées pour obtenir un passeport diplomatique de Guinée-Bissau en bonne et due forme. Les postes promis, à l’Unesco notamment, ne se sont […]
A total of 358 pledges were submitted on the occasion of the the High-Level Segment on Statelessness in October 2019. 252 of these pledges were delivered by States, 73 by civil society organizations, and 33 by international and regional organizations. […]
e-BLJ, Ano 2 (2019), n.º 3 By Bronwen Manby Abstract: This article provides a detailed comparative overview of the nationality laws of the five Lusophone member states of the African Union, known collectively as the Países Africanos de Língua Oficial […]
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Those on the verge of becoming full citizens in Guinea-Bissau are beneficiaries of a policy that stands in contrast to that of many other countries By Ruth Maclean in Pelundo, Guinea-Bissau Eduardo Marina was harvesting in the peanut fields with […]
O Governo da Guiné-Bissau e o Alto Comissariado da ONU para os Refugiados (ACNUR) assinaram hoje um documento para a atribuição da nacionalidade guineense a cerca de 10.000 refugiados que se encontram no país. Os 10.000 refugiados estão há mais […]
Update from UNHCR West Africa regional office, including: Guinea Bissau joins the statelessness conventions Abidjan commitments translated into action Statelessness in the news & more. En francais. Em portugues.
Summary of developments in the #ibelong campaign to end statelessness around the world, including, from Africa: In July in Southern Africa, the Southern Africa Trade Union Coordination Council, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and UNHCR hosted a capacity building workshop on […]
The Organising Committee for the Africa Cup of Nations on Monday, 22 August 2016 ruled on a protest by Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) on the eligibility of Papa Massa Mbaye Fall for Guinea Bissau by concluding that Article 7 […]