Action 6 of the Global Action Plan calls on States to grant protection status to stateless migrants through the establishment of statelessness determination procedures, and facilitate their naturalization. A statelessness determination procedure serves to identify stateless persons among migrant populations […]
Citizenship Studies; Volume 20, 2016 – Issue 6-7 By Robtel Neajai Pailey As a twenty-first century post-war, emigrant-sending country, Liberia reflects global citizenship norms while simultaneously departing from them, and this unique positioning offers new opportunities to theorise citizenship across […]
Nigeria’s birth registration is dismal, with only nine of its 36 states, including the federal capital territory, recording up to 50 per cent of their births, a 2016 infographics by AFRI-DEV info has shown. Of all 36 states, Zamfara has the […]
Ethnic Lebanese people born in Sierra Leone are not eligible to be citizens of the country by birth. This is because the 1991 Sierra Leone Constitution and the Citizenship Act says that Sierra Leoneans born in the country who are […]
Executive Council 29th Ordinary Session 10 – 15 July 2016 Kigali, Rwanda, Doc EX.CL/968(XXIX) XIV. RECOMMENDATIONS […] To the AUC: i) Process the drafts instruments (the Draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights […]
AU Executive Council 29th Ordinary Session, 10 – 18 July 2016, Kigali, Rwanda, Document EX.CL/978(XXIX) Including: Informal Consultative Session with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ […]
The African Union is set to launch a common electronic passport that would grant visa-free travel to all of its 54 member-states, a move that hits at the organisation’s long-running goal of more closely linking nations from across the continent. […]
NAIROBI – As the United Nations begins the verification of refugees in Dadaab refugee camp, a group of stateless refugees is worried about their own fate. This week, the United Nations announced that it had begun a verification exercise of […]
(HH 406-16 HC 9462/10) [2016] ZWHHC 406 MUNANGATI-MANONGWA J: In this opposed application, the applicant seeks to compel the first respondent, the Registrar of Births and Deaths, to issue a birth certificate to her minor child in the family name […]
Luanda — Angolan citizens awaiting their ID are notified to approach any concerned counter with their respective invoice and claim it, as the technical hurdle that prevailed from January to May this year has been removed. This was said Thursday […]
“We are aware of Kenyans falsely registering as refugees in order to get free services and food” – UN refugee agency spokesman In Summary: The Kenyan government has pledged it will not violate its international obligations by forcing any refugees […]
Les autorités ne sont pas allées loin dans leur volonté de réformer le code de la nationalité. Le projet de loi soumis au Parlement reste discriminatoire. Un tout petit pas. Le code de la nationalité malgache évolue, mais à pas […]