November 11, 2020 8:25 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Over 18,000 stateless people in Kenya struggle to access basic services as they lack official identity documents. A young woman has made history as the first stateless Shona woman to make it to university. By Rose Ogola in Nairobi, Kenya […]
November 11, 2020 4:35 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Imagine not being able to vote in today’s by-elections, or get a driver’s licence or even open a bank account. Suppose you were considered not to ‘exist’ in your own country, being a person suspended in Statelessness? It’s estimated that […]
November 11, 2020 10:53 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
In 2021, Rwanda’s National Statelessness Taskforce and UNHCR will prioritise the identification of statelessness persons and those with undetermined nationality living in Rwanda. By Eugene Sibomana and Johanna Seidl “Consider just one minute. What would be like, if a country […]
November 11, 2020 9:32 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) have taken a significant step toward eradicating statelessness within the Great Lakes Region as UNHCR marks the 6th anniversary of the Global Campaign to End Statelessness by 2024. During the Regional […]
November 10, 2020 11:50 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Amnesty International Bénin a organisé du vendredi, 06 au samedi, 07 novembre 2020 à l’Infosec à Cotonou, un atelier de renforcement de capacités à l’intention de l’équipe de sa Clinique légale et des points focaux sur la question de l’apatridie. […]
November 9, 2020 6:57 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
The Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2020 will finally be tabled before Parliament after it was published in the Government Gazette of October 30. The new Bill by the Minister of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs, Anna Mokgethi seeks to amend sections […]
November 6, 2020 5:44 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
High Court Judgement: Wheeler v RG and Others HH 181-20 judgment Supreme Court Order: Wheeler v RG and Others Supreme Court Order 2020-11-06 Note on the case by Tafadzwa Ralph Mugabe Legal Counsel: CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION ADVISORY NOTE #13 of […]
November 6, 2020 11:11 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Loi n° 2020-012 autorisant la ratification du protocole à la charte africaine des Droits de l’Homme et des peuples, relatif aux droits des personnes âgées, adopté le 31 janvier 2016 à Addis-Abeba en Ethiopie Loi n° 2020-013 autorisant la ratification […]
November 5, 2020 12:10 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Depuis six ans, le Haut-commissariat des Nations unies aux réfugiés (Hcr) a initié aux côtés des gouvernements, une campagne de sensibilisation sur l’apatridie en vue de l’éradiquer dans tous les pays. Ainsi, dans sa volonté d’apporter son aide aux pays, […]
November 5, 2020 12:05 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
La Représentation nationale donne son quitus pour l’adhésion du Togo à la convention sur la réduction des cas d’apatridie. La Représentation nationale a délibéré et adopté au cours de la huitième séance plénière de la deuxième session ordinaire de l’année […]
November 4, 2020 11:05 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
La représentation nationale a délibéré et adopté au cours de la huitième séance plénière de la deuxième session ordinaire de l’année 2020, tenue le 04 novembre 2020, le projet de loi autorisant l’adhésion du Togo à la Convention sur la […]
November 1, 2020 7:34 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
88th Pre-Sessional Working Group 08 -12 February 2021 The Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), the Centre for Child Law and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (the Institute) welcome the opportunity to make this submission […]