by CLAUSE MASIKA Data Rights and their Kenyan partner organisations the Kenya Human Rights Commission and the Nubian Rights Forum (NRF) are suing IDEMIA, one of the leading biometric tech companies in the world, before the Paris judicial tribunal. The […]
Extract: Chapter 9.1 Birth registration A name and nationality are every child’s right, enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other international treaties. Registering children at birth is the first step in securing their recognition […]
SPOUSAL and relative’s visas should be done away with because the system is being “abused by foreign nationals” to settle in SA, the ANC has said in an additional discussion document distributed to delegates at the policy conference on Friday […]
By Muhammad Kamal In December 2020, political and human rights activist Ghada Naguib became the first Egyptian citizen to be stripped of her nationality over her criticisms of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government and its human rights abuses. Naguib and […]
Sango Coin, which is the official cryptocurrency for the Central African Republic, is now available for purchase on the Sango Investment Platform. This comes few weeks after the Investment Platform let investors deposit a basket of cryptocurrencies for investment, including […]
The law, which ends a 1973 ban on dual nationality, is partly due to extensive campaigning by Liberians in the diaspora. By Dounard Bondo Liberia’s president has signed into law a bill that amends the country’s alien and nationality law. The […]
Le 21 juillet 2022, au camp des réfugiés de Maroua, le chef-lieu de la région de l’Extrême-nord du Cameroun, le Haut-commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) a procédé à la remise de 1 000 actes de naissances aux […]
An Act of Parliament to give effect to Article 53 of the Constitution; to make provision for children rights, parental responsibility, alternative care of children including guardianship, foster care placement and adoption; to make provision for care and protection of […]
Liberia has allowed dual citizenship, reversing a longtime ban viewed by some as hypocritical as many elites secretly held US citizenship. The bill, signed into law by President George Weah Friday and confirmed Sunday by AFP, had passed both the […]
By Cholo Brooks At long last, Liberia, Africa’s oldest Republic has finally allowed any person who is a negro or of negro descent, born in Liberia and a person born outside of the country, “whose father and mother were either […]
Le représentant du Haut commissariat aux réfugiés (HCR), Igor Ciobanu et ceux du Focus development association, ont effectué une visite de courtoisie auprès du vice-président de l’Assemblée nationale à Tsimbazaza, Honoré Rasolonjatovo. La question des apatrides a été remise sur […]
By Selamawit Mengesha Addis Ababa City Administration has suspended the renewal of residents identification cards (ID) beginning last July 11, 2022 until further notice. It is an outcome of the current controversy surrounding the condominium housing draw. The city admin […]