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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Interview with Richard Banégas and Armando Cutolo While it is well acknowledged that identity documents provide rights to citizenship and social inclusion, they can also generate violence and conflicts. In their recently published book entitled ID Wars in Côte d’Ivoire. […]
L’espoir d’un changement existe. Au début de l’été, M. Dingha et ses collègues du parlement camerounais ont adopté un projet de loi permettant au pays d’adhérer à deux conventions des Nations unies relatives à la reconnaissance des apatrides. Cela “contribuerait à réduire […]
By NGALA KILLIAN CHIMTOM MAYOS, Cameroon (AP) — The morning sun filtered through the forest canopy, casting dappled light on this village in Cameroon. For the Baka Indigenous community, it was a timeless image. But a passing truck broke the […]
Plaintiff claims defendant presented no evidence countering accusation of dual nationalities by Sami Zaptia On Wednesday (11 September), a session was held before the Administrative Judiciary at the Court of Appeal in Tripoli (in case no. 455 of 2023) concerning […]
Au Niger, la question de l’apatridie, c’est-à-dire le fait de ne reconnaître légalement aucun État comme étant le sien, est au cœur des préoccupations. Face à ce défi, le Haut-Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) a organisé, ce […]