The Senegalese music band just released a powerful clip with the help of UNHCR. On the occasion of the second anniversary of the #IBelong Campaign this month to Eradicate Global Statelessness in 10 years, Bideew Bou Bess – or “New […]
C’est fait, la nouvelle Constitution créant la 3e République de la Côte d’Ivoire a été adoptée lors du référendum de dimanche 30 octobre : adoption à 93,42% des suffrages exprimés tandis que l’opposition avait appelé à un boycott de ce […]
A law drafted by the parliament’s legislative committee is currently barred from discussion upon request of government Egypt’s House of Representative gave the government a 14-day ultimatum to finish drafting a new Equal Citizenship Law, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported on […]
CRC/C/SLE/CO/3-5 Birth registration 16. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals on providing legal identity for all, including birth registration, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Continue its efforts to register all children, especially those […]
By Nasredeen Abdulbari Volume 4 Issue 1, November 2016 Incompatibilities between national laws, on the one hand, and international law, human rights rules and principles of citizenship with regard to women, their children (who are born to a foreign father) […]
[2016] UKPC 30 Privy Council Appeal No 0006 of 2016 1. The National Identity Card Act 1985 (“the 1985 Act”) provides for adult citizens of Mauritius to carry identity cards which bear their names and signatures. More recently, the […]
By Louzel Lombard Cape Town – The Department of Home Affairs has scrapped having two versions of the birth certificate, an abridged (issued for new-borns up until 2013) and an unabridged birth certificate detailing both parents details (issued to all […]
By BALDWIN NDABA Johannesburg – An SANDF member has taken Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba to the high court after his department allegedly refused to register his eight-month-old daughter, born to a Congolese woman, as a South African national. […]
Yet another community that has been in the country for decades and never succeeded as being recognised as Kenyan citizens, Friday paid President Uhuru Kenyatta a courtesy call at State House Nairobi. The Isahakia community, a native Somali community was among the first people […]
President Uhuru Kenyatta has affirmed that the government is committed to uniting the country and serving all Kenyans without discrimination. The President said Kenyans should shun tribalism and join hands in building a country that they will always be proud […]
IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by section 9 (2) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Co-ordination of National Government declares that: 1. With effect from the 1st November, 2016 the registration of […]
Decision adopted unanimously by the IPU Governing Council at its 199th session (Geneva, 27 October 2016) The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, […] 1. Notes with satisfaction that a passport has been issued to Mr. Chalupa for humanitarian reasons, […]