It is now 60 years since stateless people received recognition in international law, and the UN has two conventions (1954 and 1961) dedicated to their protection and the regularization of their situation. Yet an estimated 10 million people worldwide still […]
Across the world today more than ten million people are told they don’t belong ANYWHERE.They are called ‘stateless’. They are denied a nationality. And with it, they are denied their basic rights. Statelessness can mean a life without education, without […]
More than 195,000 Zimbabweans have in recent weeks applied to remain in South Africa under the new Zimbabwe Special Permits dispensation, the home affairs department said Tuesday. Almost another 50,000 were expected to do so by months’ end. “In October, […]
“Through the present general recommendation, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women aims to provide authoritative guidance to States parties on legislative, policy and other appropriate measures to ensure the implementation of their obligations under the Convention on […]
The Dual Citizenship clause has been retained in the final draft constitution. Article 18 of part four (4) of the final draft constitution states: “A citizen shall not lose citizenship by acquiring the citizenship of another country.” And the clause […]
A commission formed by the Cabinet to review pardons and citizenships granted by former president Mohamed Morsy to foreigners has revoked the citizenship of 800 people, including Palestinians, who obtained it illegally, according to security sources. Those include Hamas senior […]
The Nigerien Parliament on Wednesday passed a law authorising dual citizenship for all its citizens. A parliamentary source said in Niamey that the law was unanimously passed by members of the parliament. He said the law allowed Nigerien-born citizens to […]
[translation via Google translate] Security sources revealed that the committee set up by the Council of Ministers to review all the decisions issued by the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, to pardon prisoners and grant citizenship to foreigners, has completed its […]
Le Parlement nigérien a adopté lundi le nouveau code de la nationalité nigérienne autorisant la double nationalité à tous ses citoyens. Cette loi, votée à l’unanimité par les députés nationaux, permet à tout Nigérien d’origine d’acquérir une autre nationalité, sans […]
The Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration receives at least two requests on a weekly basis in which Namibian women married to foreigners request the ministry to help them trace the whereabouts of their ‘husbands’. Speaking in an interview with […]
By Sonia Farid | Special to Al Arabiya News Based on available information, Hisham Mohammad Ahmed al-Tayeb is the first Egyptian to be stripped of his citizenship. According to a cabinet decree issued on Oct. 15, the decision was taken […]
One way to think about the now controversial National Identity Card project is to ask what would happen if we can’t find the US$115 million that the National Identification Authority (NIA) is seeking, to enable it to build a robust […]