O governo são-tomense vai conceder a nacionalidade deste país a todos cidadãos de Estados membros da CPLP que se encontravam neste arquipélago da África equatorial à data da independência em 1975. Foi fixado o prazo de seis meses, ou seja […]
CRC/C/MUS/CO/3-5 The Committee considered the consolidated third to fifth periodic reports of Mauritius (CRC/C/MUS/3–5) at its 1940th and 1942nd meetings (see CRC/C/SR.1940 and 1942), held on 14 and 15 January 2015, and adopted the following concluding observations, at its 1983rd […]
Ghana has started initiatives that will provide the necessary impetus for it to accede to the United Nations’ Conventions on Statelessness by 2016. Mr James Agalga, Deputy Minister of the Interior, said alongaside these initiatives, the government recognizes the need […]
AfriForum noted with concern President Jacob Zuma’s announcement during the State of the Nation Address of 2015 that foreign citizens will no longer be allowed to own land in South Africa, but may only be considered for long term leases. […]
Materials in English, French and Portuguese for the ECOWAS ministerial meeting on statelessness. Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 23 to 25 February 2015. Abidjan Declaration of Ministers of ECOWAS States on the Eradication of Statelessness: ENG-Declaration FRE-Declaration POR-Declaration Conclusions and Recommendations E-Conclusions […]
The Economic Community of West African States is holding its first ministerial conference on statelessness this week in Abidjan. The United Nations said at least 750,000 people in West Africa are denied a nationality. Where Sierra Leonean refugees say both […]
Following two days of high-level consultations on 23-24 February, Member States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) adopted today a Declaration on the prevention, reduction and elimination of statelessness in West Africa at a joint UNHCR/ECOWAS Ministerial […]
Nigeria – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission and its Free Movement and Tourism Directorate is hosting a High-Level Immigration and Consular Officials Meeting this week (24-26 February) in Dakar, Senegal. The meeting will focus on enhanced […]
UNHCR and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are holding this week a ministerial conference to end statelessness in West Africa – the first of its kind on the African continent. The event takes place tomorrow (25 February) […]
L’apatridie fait référence à la condition d’une personne n’étant considérée par aucun État comme son ressortissant, en application de sa législation. Bien que les personnes apatrides puissent parfois être aussi des réfugiés, le droit international considère distinctement ces deux catégories. […]
La nationalité est le lien juridique entre un Etat et un individu et l’apatridie fait référence au cas d’un individu qu’aucun Etat neconsidère comme son ressortissant. Chaque individu a le droit à une nationalité et le droit de jouir de […]
We, National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) in West Africa first gathered at a meeting in Saly Portudal, Senegal, in April 2014 to discuss our engagement on statelessness, and gathered again here in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, during the expert meeting on […]