June 18, 2024 7:23 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Proposal could extend legal identity to tens of thousands By Ayang Macdonald The Parliament of Cameroon is examining a bill that will allow the country to accede to two United Nations Conventions relating to the recognition of stateless persons. If […]
June 18, 2024 8:07 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Harriet Chikandiwa GOVERNMENT yesterday reacted angrily to a report by Amnesty International in Zimbabwe detailing how the country’s discriminatory and arbitrary nationality laws had left generations of migrant workers and their families marginalised. In April 2021, Amnesty International launched […]
June 16, 2024 5:26 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Le gouvernement ivoirien a adopté ce mercredi 14 juin 2023 un projet de loi faisant frein à l’acquisition immédiate de la nationalité ivoirienne pour le conjoint étranger, suite à la formalité administrative du mariage avec l’autre conjoint de nationalité ivoirienne, […]
June 13, 2024 8:09 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
The Archbishop of Johannesburg reiterates the Church’s commitment to responding to statelessness in the Southern Africa Region. By Sr Katleho Khang, SNJM In Southern Africa, many poor and marginalised children are exposed to statelessness due to a lack of birth […]
June 12, 2024 2:27 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Ce 12 juin, la justice ivoirienne a déclaré l’homme d’affaires d’origine libanaise non coupable de complicité de faux et usage de faux commis sur des documents administratifs. Cette « affaire des passeports » avait fait beaucoup de bruit. Plusieurs proches […]
June 11, 2024 5:37 pm
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By Anna Chibamu HUMAN rights lobby group Amnesty International says the absence of official data on undocumented people in Zimbabwe is worrisome and problematic and has urged the state to amend legislation. According to the UNHCR, an estimated 300 000 […]
June 11, 2024 8:49 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
On May 8, 2024, the Council of Ministers of Benin submitted to parliament a draft law recognizing Beninese nationality for “Afro-descendants”—persons with sub-Saharan African ancestry deported during the slave trade. The Beninese government expressed that many Afro-descendants wish to reconnect […]
June 7, 2024 11:39 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Nous avons à ce jour, traité 13.000 actes de naissance destinés aux victimes du conflit Casamance, sur un total de 55.041 personnes enrôlées’’, a-t-il annoncé. Aly Kanouté s’exprimait en marge d’une table-ronde sur les projets et programmes de l’Agence des […]
June 7, 2024 10:48 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
L’initiative en question est une approche innovante visant à améliorer l’accès des enfants et des communautés aux services de vaccination et d’enregistrement des naissances. Menée dans six pays, dont le Tchad, elle vise à combler les lacunes persistantes en matière […]
June 5, 2024 12:44 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Three-country investigation shows digital IDs in Africa failing to deliver promised democratic and development boost, while making fortunes for tech vendors Some of the world’s poorest countries have been investing heavily in digital ID systems which it is claimed will […]
June 1, 2024 10:03 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Executive Summary The position paper provides an in-depth analysis of the National ID System in Uganda, focusing on the National Security Identification System and the emerging New Generation National ID Project (Ndaga Muntu). The NSIS project, initiated to address security […]
May 30, 2024 8:53 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
En sa séance du Conseil des ministres du 08 mai 2024, le gouvernement béninois a décidé de la transmission à l’Assemblée nationale, pour examen et vote, du projet de loi relative à la reconnaissance de la nationalité béninoise aux Afro-descendants […]