REPORTS yesterday said the Registrar-General’s office would from Monday resume issuing birth certificates, passports and identity documents (IDs) after months of closure due to COVID-19 lockdowns. The exercise, we are told, would target the marginalised San community in Tsholotsho and […]
Résumé du plan d’action national de lutte contre l’apatridie En vertu du droit international, les États définissent les règles d’attribution, d’acquisition, de changement et de retrait de la nationalité. En même temps, la liberté des États en matière de nationalité […]
By Victor Raballa & Angeline Ochieng Over the years, different groups of Kenyans have sued the British government for one reason or another. There were maimed and bereaved families in Samburu that sued after unexploded ordnances were left behind by […]
The minister was reacting to a question from a journalist at Uganda Media Center on Saturday about complaints from the community that they are treated differently because of their ethnicity. .. ICT and National Guidance minister, Dr Chris Baryomunsi, says […]
By Nqobile Tshili National identity documents such as a birth certificate and a national identity card confirm an individual’s citizenship. People who do not have such documents are considered stateless. According to international law, a stateless person is someone who […]
Reçue le jeudi, 02 septembre 2021 par la ministre d’Etat ministre de la Justice et Garde des sceaux, Rose Mutombo Kiese la représentante du Haut-commissariat des Nations unies aux réfugiés(Hcr), Liz Kpam Ahua a indiqué devant la presse qu’elle est […]
4 decades ago, this issue began by a change in law, split families, and changed a whole generation of people. On the wayside got left behind roughly 4 to 5 dozen individuals. Extremely marginalized. On Thursday, 02 September 2021, a […]
By Valentin Tapsoba, UNHCR Director for Southern Africa Mpho, 33, has lived in South Africa her entire life, yet she is stateless; she has no nationality. When she was found abandoned as a young child, the identity of her parents […]
by TRACY MUTINDA Members of the Stateless Asians of Kenya Community were awarded Kenyan citizenship certificates on Thursday. Fify-two Asians went home with their certificates as the government vowed to end statelessness. In attendance during the award ceremony were Director […]
by GORDON OSEN AND FAITH CHEBET Some 52 stateless Asians living in the country without legal status can now live freely after the government granted them Kenyan citizenship on Thursday. They are descendants or children of pioneer Asians who came […]
On 16 July, the Organic Law governing Rwandan nationality was passed outlining procedures and requirements for acquisition and application of Rwandan nationality. The new Organic law No.002/2021 replaces the 2008 Nationality Code and provides for more restrictive rules. It emphasises […]
L’ANATS et l’Unicef conjuguent leurs efforts pour la révision des outils et procédures relatifs à l’enregistrement des naissances et des décès. Faire la révision des outils et des procédures pour l’enrôlement des naissances et de décès dans les délais par […]