HARARE, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) — Friendly investors will be granted Zimbabwean citizenship as part of the government’s efforts to lure investment, a cabinet minister has said. “President Emmerson Mnangagwa is once again going to make history by making Zimbabwe one […]
LE PRESIDENT DE LA TRANSITION, CHEF DE L’ETAT, Vu la Constitution ; Vu la Charte de la Transition ; Vu la Loi n°2022-001 du 25 février 2022 portant révision de la Charte de la Transition ; Vu la Loi n°2001-079, […]
by Tunde Oguntola National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCRFMI) and other stakeholders have commenced the review of the draft Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Statelessness Status Determination (SSD). The federal commissioner of NCFRMI, Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, […]
Refugees returning to remote areas of South Sudan often struggle to get vital nationality documents. So UNHCR is taking the registration process to them. Farmer Juma Alzen Sebil ran for his life when gunmen attacked his hometown in 2016, shooting […]
Les nombreuses initiatives visant à l’établissement d’actes de naissance lancées ces derniers mois n’auront donc pas permis de résoudre le problème. Au Gabon, le nombre d’enfants dépourvus de ce document et risquant l’apatridie reste important, y compris à Libreville. Dans […]
By Johannes Shekeni and Lesley Blaauw Journal of Namibian Studies, 32 (2022): 109 – 127 Despite a plethora of confirmed cases of statelessness in Namibian, the country has no procedure for or policy on determining whether an individual is stateless […]
By Zelda Venter Pretoria – A young man left in legal limbo after his parents never registered his birth has appealed to the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, for help. The Department of Home Affairs had simply ignored his plight over […]
Non-citizen Children of Libyan Women Still Blocked From Citizenship By Hanan M Salah On October 19, the Council of Ministers of the Libyan Government of National Unity (GNU) issued a new Decree stating that non-citizen children of Libyan women would be granted “all rights […]
PRESS STATEMENT Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) is in the North Gauteng Division of the High Court today, representing a stateless client in a case again the Minister and Director General of Home Affairs. LHR’s client, Mr Khoza, is the […]
Le gouvernement comorien veut empêcher les binationaux, notamment les citoyens qui sont également français, de se présenter à l’élection présidentielle de 2024, selon un projet de loi actuellement examiné au Parlement dont l’AFP a obtenu copie. “Si un candidat est […]
A Decade into APAI-CRVS: Reflecting on progress and accelerating efforts towards 2030 through transformed systems. Experts Group Meeting of the 6th Conference of African Ministers Responsible for Civil Registration will be held from 24-28th October 2022 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia […]
Concerted efforts and focus are urgently needed to raise birth registration levels among the poorest children. ADDIS ABABA, 24 October 2022 — Of the 164 million unregistered children under 5 worldwide, more than half (around 91 million) live in Africa, […]