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 […]
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) ruled Saturday unconstitutional a law banning dual nationality citizens from running in parliamentary elections. The ruling opens the door for further postponement of parliamentary elections after an administrative court ordered a halt to all preparations […]
In close cooperation with the UN Refugee Agency, Malian authorities have officially delivered birth certificates to 32 Mauritanian refugee children born in Mali in a ceremony in Kayes, in the western part of the country, yesterday (6 March). The ceremony […]
By: Anuradha Mittal Is the 2015 “Iowa Agriculture Summit” really a bi-partisan forum to promote agriculture, or yet another scheme devised by multi-millionaire Iowan Bruce Rastetter to hijack issues impacting farmers and agriculture for his self-serving political and economic agenda? […]
Action 3 of the Global Action Plan calls on States to remove gender discrimination from nationality laws. The attainment of gender equality in nationality laws worldwide would constitute a major step forward in preventing statelessness. International human rights law provides […]
The President of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, Justice Maria Do Céu Silva Monteiro, has described the 1982 regional Protocol defining community citizenship in ECOWAS as ‘outdated’. She has thus called for its revision, which should be in line […]
art. 7: « tout enfant est enregistré à sa naissance et a dès celle-ci le droit à un nom, le droit d’acquérir la nationalité et, dans la mesure du possible, connaitre ses parents et d’être élevé par eux » Télécharger: […]
More than 54,000 South Sudanese have been registered and some 37,000 identity cards produced since the programme began at the start of February By: Karin de Gruijl KHARTOUM, Sudan, March 3 (UNHCR) – The Sudan government has begun to register South […]
CRC/C/TZA/CO/3-5 Concluding observations on the combined third to fifth periodic reports of the United Republic of Tanzania Birth registration The Committee notes with appreciation the measures taken by the State party to increase birth registration, including the Under-Five National Birth […]
The Pastor of New Water in the Desert Assembly (NWIDA), the headquarters congregation of the Apostolic Pentecostal Church (APC) has called on Liberians to stand against dual citizenship. He believes that if dual citizenship is rejected it would avoid recreating […]
Something unusual happened in parliament on November 25, 2014. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Gen. Aronda Nyakairima and his deputy, James Baba, and the Permanent Secretary, Stephen Kagoda, were appearing before the Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs to give […]
Decision adopted at the 17th Extraordinary Session of the Commission, 19 – 28 February 2015. Banjul, Gambia. Published on 30 May 2016. The Commission held, inter alia, that: “By failing to take measures to prevent members of the Nubian Community […]