Author Archives for Bronwen Manby
October 13, 2024 6:07 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Le général Abdourahamane Tiani, président de la transition au Niger, a pris une décision controversée ce jeudi 10 octobre 2024 en retirant provisoirement la nationalité nigérienne à neuf proches de l’ancien président Mohamed Bazoum. Ce décret, annoncé via un communiqué […]
October 13, 2024 4:26 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Milcah Abasabyona Journal of Science and Sustainable Development, Vol. 9 No. 1 (2022) Abstract This paper explores how a new hierarchy of legal Identification Documents (IDs) in Uganda, topped by the National Identification Document (NID), interchangeably referred to as […]
October 11, 2024 2:40 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Neuf responsables du régime civil nigérien renversé en juillet 2023 sont “provisoirement déchus” de leur nationalité, soupçonnés notamment “d’intelligence avec une puissance étrangère” et de “complot contre l’autorité de l’Etat”, a annoncé jeudi le gouvernement militaire. Le général Abdourahamane Tiani, […]
October 11, 2024 8:22 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
GENEVA – More than half a million people around the world who were living in the shadows, deprived of their right to nationality, have now acquired citizenship since the inception a decade ago of the #IBelong campaign, according to a […]
October 11, 2024 7:56 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
This policy brief examines the socioeconomic progress of the Shona community in Kenya since gaining citizenship in 2020-21. Previously stateless, the Shona faced barriers to formal employment, financial services, and social protection. Citizenship has enabled 86% of the community to […]
October 10, 2024 7:23 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Nita Balla NAIROBI – Nosizi Dube beams with pride as she clutches her newly issued Kenyan passport. For many, obtaining a passport might be a mundane task, but for 24-year-old Dube, who was born into the stateless Shona community […]
October 8, 2024 5:06 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
The case of Chidimma Adetshina, who came under national scrutiny between August and September, sheds light on the levels of xenophobia and anti-immigration sentiment in South Africa. The 23-year-old model—born in Soweto to a Nigerian father and South African mother—was […]
October 7, 2024 2:01 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Eric Codjo Montcho Agbassa et Renaud Fiacre Avlessi COUNTRY REPORT RSC/GLOBALCIT-CR 2024/03 1. Introduction Le Dahomey d’alors, Bénin aujourd’hui, ancienne colonie de la France, n’avait pas une législation propre sur la nationalité ; avant la décolonisation, les ressortissants dahoméens étaient […]
October 3, 2024 4:53 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
A birth registration is the official recording of the birth of a child through a state’s administrative process. It is a permanent and official record of a child’s existence. Although birth registration is different from the process of acquiring nationality, […]
October 2, 2024 2:47 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Le ministère de l’Intérieur poursuit ses activités dans le cadre des opérations de Jugements supplétifs d’acte de naissance pour les enfants mineurs. Cette année, les autorités prévoient la régularisation de 65.000 enfants répartis dans 22 districts de l’île. L’objectif étant […]
October 1, 2024 2:32 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Foreword Ending statelessness within 10 years. That was the ambition when we launched the #IBelong campaign in 2014. By raising awareness and mobilizing global support around that ambition, we aimed to address a largely invisible crisis: that of millions of […]
September 30, 2024 11:20 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Author: Zekhethelo Cele LLM Candidate, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria Chidimma Vanessa Adetshina’s nationality has sparked a significant debate on identity, belonging, and representation between South Africa and Nigeria. Allegedly born in South Africa to a Nigerian father […]
