Extracts relevant to Africa: Mobilizing Governments and Civil Society On 7 November, the Consolidated Action Plan of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) on the Eradication of Statelessness (2017-2024) was validated during a regional inter-ministerial committee meeting. […]
Amnesty international Bénin a organisé vendredi, 08 janvier 2021 à l’Infosec à Cotonou, un atelier de concertation interministérielle et de certaines agences sur la prise en compte de la question de l’apatridie dans les réformes sur l’état civil au Bénin […]
By Bernard Mugendi The Shona community lived in the shadows and were previously not willing to engage with activists due to the fear generated by numerous arrests and harassment they’d been systematically subjected to, especially during the Moi era. Resultantly, […]
By Keren Weitzberg ‘I do not have any documentation that shows that I am a Kenyan,’ Adan lamented. ‘My children have a birth certificate that says: “single parent”. It’s like I had died. And yet I am alive.’ Adan is […]
Adama ne connaît pas son âge. Depuis sa venue au monde, elle n’a jamais eu d’acte de naissance. Officiellement, cette fillette n’existe donc pas. « Je connais mon nom parce qu’on m’appelle Adama Seini », souffle-t-elle. A l’école Camp militaire de Mora, dans la […]
Depuis six ans les ingénieurs burkinabé Adama Sawadogo et français Francis Bourrières proposent un dispositif innovant qui permet l’enregistrement des naissances à distance : iCivil. Lorsqu’un enfant naît, la sage-femme lui remet un bracelet doté d’un code à bulles unique […]
Law activist and academician, Prof Stephen Kwaku Asare aka Kwaku Azar has once again penned a position challenging the explanation given by some individuals on the position of the law on dual citizenship. The outspoken lawyer in his article explained […]
Young Liberian academic Dr. Robtel Neajai Pailey has launched a book in Monrovia on Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia. Launching the book in the auditorium of the University of Liberia […]
By Kim Harrisberg JOHANNESBURG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Plans to photograph and fingerprint every baby born in South Africa for a digital register could lead to data leaks and identity theft without robust safeguards, rights experts said on Thursday. The […]
O Governo de Cabo Verde avança com atribuição de nacionalidade aos descendentes de cabo-verdianos residentes nos países africanos. O processo é gratuito e decorre até 31 de Dezembro de 2023. Para acompanhar o processo de atribuição de nacionalidade aos descendentes […]
Par Merzouk Abdelaziz Le Ministre de la Justice Belkacem Zeghmati est revenu ce vendredi 7 janvier sur les conditions d’acquisition de la nationalité algérienne. Intervenant lors d’une plénière au conseil de la nation, consacrée aux questions des sénateurs, le ministre […]
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