[Editorial] President George Weah’s State of the Nation Address last Monday calling for citizenship and land rights to be granted people of non-Negro descent has sparked dissenting views from many quarters, even among those who are so loyal to him. […]
If you are Syrian or have been to Sudan, the chances are you will have seen a Facebook ad saying: “Interested in Sudanese nationality? Call this number.” Fast-track services offering Sudanese citizenship are openly advertised on social media, many of them […]
A l’occasion, une personne ressource du bureau local de la CEDEAO, a exposé sur « Les Initiatives de la CEDEAO en matière de migration et lutte contre l’Apatridie » , suivi de la présentation de Djibril Baldé, (International Refugee Rights […]
Depuis le 15 janvier, une campagne nationale pour l’inscription des enfants non enregistrés aux registres de l’état civil est lancée par les autorités, placée sous le signe «L’inscription à l’état civil, un droit constitutionnel : je suis inscrit donc j’existe», […]
By Henry Karmo Monrovia – Liberian Senators are providing contrary opinions on calls by President George Weah to revisit laws on citizenship, property ownership, and law to make people of non-Negro decent citizens of Liberia.In an off-the-agenda discussion (informal) while […]
4 Recommendations made on statelessness — by Sierra Leone, Namibia, Mexico 1 recommendation on acceding to the 1954 and 1961 Statelessness Conventions; 2 recommendations on eliminating gender discrimination in respect to the conferral of nationality; and 1 recommendation on promoting […]
Concernant la restriction sur la double nationalité, Weah a estimé que la plupart des Libériens qui sont également citoyens d’un autre pays ont probablement acquis cette nationalité supplémentaire pour échapper aux terribles atrocités qui ont caractérisé le conflit civil du […]
Report by Lennart Dodoo and Henry Karmo Monrovia – President George Manneh Weah has called for the repealing of the part of the Constitution that restricts Liberian citizenship to people of color He also called for the consideration of dual […]
A pointless and potentially dangerous controversy has recently been triggered by an argument about the extent of rights to be enjoyed by dual citizens of Sierra Leone. This is in part because the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) has opportunistically, […]
Pressure Group, Occupy Ghana, has written to the Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo, to complain about the blacklisting of certain names such as Nana, Nii, Junior, among others from being registered by the Births & Deaths Registry. Occupy Ghana in the letter argued that, […]
Speaking during a feedback meeting with civic organisations and stakeholders at Esigodini Town Council on Wednesday, Women in Leadership Development (WILD) programmes officer, Permanent Ngoma said children in the three provinces face challenges in accessing identity documents. “According to the […]
Report by Bettie K. Johnson Mbayo Monrovia – When President George Weah was Senator he had requested the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to issue his wife a Liberian passport. She was denied on grounds that she was not a Liberian […]