By Kenneth Matimaire Children born to victims of Gukurahundi massacres have been deprived of their right to access birth registration leading to dire human rights violations associated with statelessness, a new study has shown. The findings featured in a study […]
Près de 10 millions de personnes dans le monde vivent sans aucune nationalité. Aucun État ne les considère comme ses ressortissants. Ça s’appelle apatridie. La RDC héberge aussi des apatrides, selon le comité interinstitutionnel de lutte contre apatridie en RDC. […]
Kakese Vinalu, coordonnateur du mécanisme national de la CIRGL/RDC estime qu’il faut « trouver l’instance qui peut s’occuper des apatrides ». Le mécanisme national de la CIRGL/RDC, une structure travaillant en partenariat avec le Comité technique interinstitutionnel de lutte contre […]
by AKELLO ODENYO and CHRISTINE NTINYARI “We were alive and dead at the same time, like ghosts, because we had no identity.” Those were the words of Zephaniah Muungani, a member of the Shona community living in Kenya. “Generation after […]
Two American siblings who survived a well documented massacre of Black people in the US city of Tulsa in Oklahoma have rounded up a visit to Ghana by accepting to be citizens of Ghana. 107-year-old Viola Fletcher and her brother, […]
Un Sahraoui qui avait été inscrit pendant 20 ans comme ressortissant du “Sahara occidental” à Fribourg est désormais désigné comme “sans nationalité” dans le Système d’information central sur la migration (SYMIC). Pour le Tribunal fédéral, ce changement de pratique est […]
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 […]
Les chiffres sont alarmants et inquiétants. Selon le représentant du Fonds des Nations-unies pour l’enfance (Unicef), « il s’agit là seulement de 18000 enfants scolarisables recensés cette année scolaire. La situation est plus grave si on prend en compte tous […]
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 […]
Daloa, August 18, 2021 (AIP) – The Jean Lorougnon Guédé University (UJLOG) of Daloa and the Association of Women Lawyers of Côte d’Ivoire (AFJCI) signed, Tuesday August 17, 2021, in Daloa, a partnership agreement on the funding of scientific research […]
By: Sionfolo SORO Daloa, August 18, 2021 (AIP) – The Association of Women Lawyers of Côte d’Ivoire and the High Commission for Refugees proceeded, Tuesday August 17, 2021, to the delivery of nationality certificates to foundlings, parents unknown in Daloa. […]