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 […]
In this issue: Challenging Discriminatory Legislation in Sudan Using African Legal Architecture Statelessness in Africa, with a Focus on the Gambia A Significant Step in Favour of Women’s Rights in Senegal How Lawyers for Human Rights is Fighting to End […]
Thanks to an external doctoral student under the supervision of professor René de Groot at Maastricht University, the future is looking a little bit brighter for the millions of Africans living without an official nationality. On 20 October, British scholar […]
by Valérie Stocker In the midst of the Libyan desert, a thousand kilometers south of Tripoli, a war divides two communities that had been living a brotherly life until the post-revolutionary vortex carried away their friendship. The Tebu, an ethnic […]
Government hopes to register about a million children under the age of five by the end of this year. Tanzania has launched a nationwide drive to help parents register their children’s births by mobile phone so the government can better […]
The Department of Home Affairs wants to make late birth registrations more difficult so that it can weed out chancers, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Fatima Chohan said on Tuesday. Speaking during the home affairs briefing in Parliament, she said: […]
La Conférence consultative d’Afrique de l’Ouest sur « le droit à la nationalité et l’apatridie : opportunités et défis », conjointement organisée par Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) et le Haut-Commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (UNHCR), s’est tenue à l’Hôtel […]