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 […]
Bill introduced to the House of Representatives by Acarous Gray of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) . The Act, if it entered into force, provides that: children born in Liberia are Liberian (retaining the existing wording) children born […]
À l’aube du 7ème anniversaire de la campagne « IBelong » de l’Agence des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés, Lomé accueille depuis ce mardi 2 novembre 2021, une rencontre régionale sur l’apatride. Elle réunit les points focaux apatridie du HCR, […]
Ngwenya, N. (2021). Digital Identity in Zimbabwe: Case study conducted as part of a ten-country exploration of socio-digital ID systems in parts of Africa (Towards the Evaluation of Digital ID Ecosystems in Africa: Findings from Ten Countries) [Case study]. Research […]
Iyer, N. (2021). Digital Identity in Uganda: Case study conducted as part of a ten-country exploration of socio-digital ID systems in parts of Africa (Towards the Evaluation of Digital ID Ecosystems in Africa: Findings from Ten Countries) [Case study]. Research […]
Boshe, P. (2021). Digital Identity in Tanzania: Case study conducted as part of a ten-country exploration of socio-digital ID systems in parts of Africa (Towards the Evaluation of Digital ID Ecosystems in Africa: Findings from Ten Countries) [Case study]. Research […]