In July and August 2015, UNHCR spoke to more than 250 children, young people, their parents and guardians, civil society and governments in seven countries: Côte d’Ivoire, the Dominican Republic, Georgia, Italy, Jordan, Malaysia and Thailand, about the experience of […]
Video de 7 minutes par le HCR.
The purpose of this report is to compare the legal frameworks governing birth registration in eleven jurisdictions. Birth registration is the process by which a child’s birth is recorded in the civil register by the applicable government authority. It provides […]
By Faith Tigere SS v Presiding Officer, Children’s Court, Krugersdorp and Others 2012 (6) SA 45 (GSJ) ‘Children are the soul of our society. If we fail them, then we have failed as a society.’ These are the words of […]
by Bronwen Manby How do the contours of statelessness vary from continent to continent? To what extent is the nature of statelessness directly tied to the nature of the state? Europe, after all, invented the “nation-state”, the idea that each […]
Le président d’une Association Sans But Lucratif dénommée «Nouvelle génération pour l’émergence du Congo » a affirmé le week-end dernier que l’acceptation d’une nationalité multiple par la constitution congolaise est incontournable aujourd’hui pour l’émergence de la RDC. Constant Mutamba dit […]
Less than a month after the adoption of the new global development agenda – Agenda 2030 – the question “A Legal Identity for All by 2030: What Will It Take?” brought together 32 development practitioners and scholars for a three-day […]
Le recensement biométrique des électeurs au Tchad sera lancé lundi sur tout le territoire national, selon un décret du président Idriss Déby Itno publié samedi sur la radio télévision publique. “Les opérations électorales qui démarrent le 26 octobre prochain, constituent […]
By Barbara Borst, Center for Global Affairs and Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University, Ulyankulu, Tanzania Freedom. Happiness. Gratitude. These are words that people here use over and over to describe how they feel about becoming Tanzanian citizens […]
L’acceptation d’une nationalité multiple par la constitution congolaise est incontournable aujourd’hui pour l’émergence de la RDC, a affirmé ce vendredi 22 octobre à Kinshasa le président de l’ASBL ‘Nouvelle génération pour l’émergence du Congo’, Constant Mutamba. Il a affirmé avoir […]
This was a case with enormous potential to embarrass both South Africa and Namibia whose mutual borders have never been properly finalised. But at the last minute the wealthy farmer who brought the application relented and a possible international dispute […]
ACJPS and the Peoples’ Legal Aid Clinic (PLACE) submitted a complaint to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) in August 2015 challenging a constitutional decision made by Sudan revoking a young Sudanese […]