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South Africa: This Is Home – Ali

July 9, 2021 1:13 pm Published by Comments Off on South Africa: This Is Home – Ali

This Is Home is a campaign that documents the lives of inspiring young people in South Africa who are stateless or at risk of becoming stateless. The campaign provides explainers on statelessness and practical solutions for The Department of Home […]


UNHCR Campaign to End Statelessness Update Apr-Jun 2021

July 9, 2021 9:30 am Published by Comments Off on UNHCR Campaign to End Statelessness Update Apr-Jun 2021

Extracts relevant to Africa: Mobilizing governments and civil society On 25 May, the League of Arab States (LAS), in partnership with UNHCR, convened the virtual “Arab Regional Conference: Towards an Action Plan on Belonging and Legal Identity”. The conference resulted […]


RDC – Nationalité des candidats à la présidentielle : avis de tempête sur l’Union sacrée

July 9, 2021 8:29 am Published by Comments Off on RDC – Nationalité des candidats à la présidentielle : avis de tempête sur l’Union sacrée

Un projet de loi visant à n’autoriser la candidature à la présidentielle qu’aux seuls Congolais nés de père et de mère congolais a été déposé au Parlement. La majorité de Félix Tshisekedi se déchire sur le sujet. « Pour des raisons […]


Western Sahara: From colonial subjects to stateless refugees

July 8, 2021 1:46 pm Published by Comments Off on Western Sahara: From colonial subjects to stateless refugees

Aminetou Errer Bouzeid, LEFRIG Project Coordinator and Social Worker The exact number of people who were forcibly displaced in the 1970s to the Tindouf refugee camps set up by the Algerian state is unknown, but estimated at hundreds of thousands […]


Proposition de loi modifiant et complétant la loi n°04/024 du 12 novembre 2004 relative a la nationalité congolaise (Loi Tshiani)

July 8, 2021 9:21 am Published by Comments Off on Proposition de loi modifiant et complétant la loi n°04/024 du 12 novembre 2004 relative a la nationalité congolaise (Loi Tshiani)

[déposée au parlement le 8 juillet 2021] EXPOSE DES MOTIFS La loi n°04024 du 12 novembre 2004 relative à la nationalité congolaise demeure plus d’une décennie près, après sa promulgation un monument  Juridique ayant traité de toutes les questions relatives […]


RDC: Affaire congolité : La proposition de loi de Noël Tshiani déposée à l’Assemblée nationale

July 8, 2021 8:33 am Published by Comments Off on RDC: Affaire congolité : La proposition de loi de Noël Tshiani déposée à l’Assemblée nationale

par Joël Otshudi JOA Le député national Nsingi Pululu a déposé, ce jeudi 8 juillet 2021, au service administratif de l’Assemblée nationale la proposition de loi sur la congolité initiée par l’ex-candidat à la présidentielle de 2018, Noël Tshiani. Après […]


Opinion: Barrow must grant citizenship to immigrants in Gambia!!!

July 7, 2021 3:22 pm Published by Comments Off on Opinion: Barrow must grant citizenship to immigrants in Gambia!!!

[Culled from Fatou Jaw Manneh Facebook] Africans’ daal. Let me just start with the Gambia. Remember when US President Joe Biden announced he was going to give 11 million immigrants legal status and a path to citizenship? Gambians especially were […]


South Africa: Struggle to get ID

July 6, 2021 3:44 pm Published by Comments Off on South Africa: Struggle to get ID

A Kensington matric learner and deputy head girl of her school says her right to education is being violated. Karolyn Mujinga (18) was born in South Africa to a Congolese mother. But she says for the past two years she […]


Background Note on Sex Discrimination in Birth Registration

July 6, 2021 10:44 am Published by Comments Off on Background Note on Sex Discrimination in Birth Registration

Introduction Birth registration is a fundamental right and an enabler of other rights as it bestows a legal identity on children for life. If a child is not registered, they do not officially exist and are vulnerable to violence, abuse, […]


South Africa: This Is Home – Nephtali

July 2, 2021 10:53 am Published by Comments Off on South Africa: This Is Home – Nephtali

This Is Home is a campaign that documents the lives of inspiring young people in South Africa who are stateless or at risk of becoming stateless. The campaign provides explainers on statelessness and practical solutions for The Department of Home […]


People’s Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa

July 1, 2021 7:10 pm Published by Comments Off on People’s Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa

Darren Ekema Ewumbue Monono Pan African University, Institute of Governance, Humanities and Social Sciences Abstract The right to nationality, enshrined in art 15 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, is absent in the 1981 African Charter on Human and […]