By Fidelis Munyoro The High Court decision giving fathers of children born out of wedlock a legal right to acquire birth certificates for their children where the mothers cannot be found or become unavailable to do this, has been welcomed […]
By Murphy Nganga Cape Town – With little to no right at all, the plight for citizenship by naturalisation in South Africa continues to drive vulnerable youths to the margins of society despite the Constitutional Court’s ruling in the matter […]
The home affairs ministry will appeal a recent High Court ruling which declared the son of a same-sex couple born via surrogacy a Namibian citizen by descent in the Supreme Court. “After studying the said reasons, we have decided to […]
On 16 February 2008, Ugandan authorities forcibly evicted 178 Indigenous Benet families from Benet forest, Mount Elgon, Sebei region (Bukwo and Kween districts), in eastern Uganda, rendering them homeless. Over a decade later, when Amnesty International visited Mount Elgon, members […]
Le Réseau des professionnels des médias pour la lutte contre l’apatridie (REPMA) a annoncé le démarrage, dans les jours à venir, d’une campagne de sensibilisation. Le but est d’accentuer la lutte contre l’apatridie en Côte d’Ivoire qui enregistre près de […]
Le terme apatride désigne une personne qui n’a la nationalité d’aucun pays. Ils sont plus d’un million à être dans ce cas en Afrique de l’Ouest et à vivre ainsi sans identité légale. Aujourd’hui, alors qu’il y a eu une réelle prise de conscience […]
Liberia: About 30 lawmakers from the House of Representatives have co-signed a bill and submitted the same before the House requesting the amendment or the repeal of parts of the country’s Aliens and Nationality Law. The bill requesting the amendment […]
PNEWS – Monrovia: Montserrado County District #8 Representative, Mr. Acarous Moses Gray, has written his colleagues, in the House of Representatives, asking their consideration to amend and or repeal some parts of the Aliens and Nationality Law of Liberia. According […]
Par Serge Koffi Sans acte de naissance, difficile d’accéder à l’école. De nombreuses personnes s’exposent donc à l’apatridie. C’est à dire qu’aucun Etat ne les reconnaîtra comme ressortissants par application de sa législation. Et ils sont nombreux à souffrir de […]
By Thandeka Chauke and Tšhegofatšo Mothapo, Statelessness Project, Lawyers for Human Rights A recent decision by South Africa’s apex court has put the focus on an antiquated law that prevented children of unmarried parents accessing birth registration in the same […]
La province du Guera figure parmi celles qui ont un faible taux d’enregistrement des naissances à l’état-civil. Selon l’enquête MICS – 2019, 36,8 % des enfants de moins de 5 ans sont enregistrés à l’état civil contre seulement 7.6 % […]
By Emmanuelle Mitte, UNHCR Statelessness, once a ‘forgotten human rights crisis’, has been put at the forefront of a global agenda with the UN’s #Ibelong campaign. Among the most tragic victims of statelessness are children found abandoned in a state […]