BY KENNETH MATIMAIRE THERE is a growing population of stateless children born to illegal Zimbabwean immigrants in foreign countries, new study reveals. The study, titled Cursed with Statelessness: Consequences of Deprivation of National Identification Documents was conducted by the Zimbabwe […]
By Michael Olugbode United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the National Commission for Refugee, Migrants and Internally Displaced People (NCFRMI) and the National Population Commission (NPC) are working towards having zero stateless people in Nigeria. The United Nations has […]
Judge looks at loss of citizenship purely on paper and makes little effort to consider how it affects real people By Stefanie de Saude Darbandi A recent judgment in the Pretoria high court has dealt a blow to potentially tens […]
From Aidoghie Paulinus, Abuja In order to avoid a stateless situation, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Nigeria, has issued birth certificates to under 17 children in New Kuchingoro and Durumi Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camps in Abuja. […]
NAIROBI, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) — Unable to secure Kenyan citizenship for years, the Shona community who reside mainly in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, and neighboring Kiambu County had long resigned to a fate of statelessness. This unwanted status had […]
By Abubakar Juma Kwale, Kenya: Omari Siriako, 74, is in pain and on the point of despair as he sits outside his grass-thatched hut. He has been ailing of diabetes and has had physical injuries for a long time, dating […]
By Sam Kiplagat Close to 20,000 northern Kenya residents, who registered as asylum seekers to benefit from services offered to refugees, have sued the government seeking to be removed from the database and given national identity cards. The Kenyans, who […]
Due to the continued failure of the Kenyan government in 2016 and 2019 to deregister thousands of Kenyan citizens from the refugee database and issue them with identity cards, Haki na Sheria Initiative will file a petition on behalf of […]
By Sola Ogundipe The births of more than 50 per cent of the births of children under-5 in Nigeria remain unregistered, accounting for 11 per cent of unregistered children in West Africa, even as the births of 166 million children […]
By Fred Odianosen Itua Dr. Solomon Oseghale Momoh is a Nigerian lawyer and protection associate with UNHCR, the UN refugee agency in Nigeria. He recently completed a PhD research at Utrecht University’s Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE) […]
Download (13MB): Report on Public Petition 41 of 2020 Recognition of the Pemba People as Citizens of Kenya Also at Kenya Parliament website.
Article Premier : Les dispositions des articles 30 (nouveau) et 31 (nouveau) de la loi n° 61–112 du 12 juin 1961, modifiée, portant code de la nationalité mauritanienne, sont modifiées ainsi qu’il suit : Article 30 (nouveau) : Perd la […]