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. […]
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 […]