Nationality laws which do not grant women equality with men in conferring nationality to their children are a cause of statelessness and a concern for UNHCR under its mandate to prevent and reduce statelessness. Since 2012, UNHCR has issued an […]
Au pays de la « révolution du jasmin », l’octroi de la nationalité à des étrangers n’est pas une mince affaire. Comme en témoignent les six mille demandes en souffrance. Le 4 janvier 2016, Alfonso Campisi, 48 ans, fait le buzz. Cet écrivain […]
A Port Elizabeth woman says the Department of Home Affairs claimed she was a foreigner because of vaccination marks on her arm and refused to issue her with an identity document. The Department has denied this.Bongiwe Jokazi, 30, of Zwide, […]
A/HRC/35/26/Add.1 Extract: Civil registry 45. The adamant insistence on the part of the Government that it cannot take account of ethnicity in its policies has the effect of reinforcing the status quo. An egregious example of this is the fact […]
From Lawra to Aflao, Half Assini to Bawku, all over Ghana people will queue for an identity. Every person, regardless of age, gender, socio-economic status will document his or her personal details including name, date of birth, and contact information […]
Pamela Shumba: Bulawayo Bureau Many people in Tsholotsho District have no identity particulars. This was revealed when Tsholotsho North MP Professor Jonathan Moyo met the District Civil Protection Unit (CPU) last week at Sipepa Clinic where a temporary camp was […]
By Ingvild Vetrhus In Mali, women without identity cards are particularly susceptible to harassment – and are often left with no legal rights in their home country. “Without the ID card, I can’t go to school. I can’t even vote,” […]
Concluding observations on the combined third to fifth periodic reports of Malawi CRC/C/MWI/CO/3-5 Birth registration 17.While noting the enforcement in 2015 of the National Registration Act, the Committee is concerned that: (a)Births are registered before the mother is discharged from […]
A HUMAN rights and peace watchdog has accused authorities at the Registrar General’s Office of forcing poor villagers to pay in cash and kind to obtain identity documents ahead of a by-election in Mwenezi East constituency. BY SILAS NKALA The […]
Une délégation de l’Organisation internationale de la francophonie (OIF) est en visite officielle au Burkina Faso. Conduite par sa première responsable, la délégation de l’OIF et le Maire de Ouagadougou, Armand Roland Pierre Béouindé, ont visité une maternité pilote de […]
CRC/C/CAF/CO/2 Birth registration name and nationality 32.The Committee welcomes the measures taken to promote birth registration, in particular decree No. 14.228 of 2014 providing free birth registration to children born during the conflict that took place between 2012 and 2014, […]
La chercheuse marocaine Hind Tak-Tak, également professeure universitaire à la Faculté de droit de Casablanca, vient de publier un nouvel ouvrage aux éditions En Toutes Lettres. Intitulé «La nationalité marocaine», la publication qui ambitionne de rendre le droit accessible à […]