With the registry office facing a backlog of 280,000 applications, some people have waited close to a year to work or study abroad Nyasha Chingono Every morning for the past two months Eldah Makuvise, 35, has braved the cold winter […]
CRC/C/SWZ/2-4 Combined second to fourth periodic reports submitted by Eswatini under article 44 of the Convention, due in 2011 [Date received: 19 December 2017] Part 4 Civil rights and freedoms 4.1.Birth registration, name and nationality and preservation of identity 58.Children’s […]
By Bronwen Manby Abstract This paper presents a synthesis of research findings on the identification needs of Sub-Saharan African and other migrants and refugees in Egypt and Morocco, particularly focusing on children born outside the country of nationality of their […]
According to the report, which included more than 300 foreign national children, 40% of children have no evidence of their nationality. Kaylynn Palm CAPE TOWN – Close to 40% of foreign children entering South Africa are at risk of statelessness and […]
By Walter Mswazie in Masvingo A NUMBER of children in Masvingo are still facing challenges in acquiring birth certificates because of a number of reasons among them death of parents and problems related to legal issues, an official has said. […]
Bouna, 05 juil (AIP)-Une mission du Haut Commissariat des nations unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) sejourne à Bouna dans le cadre de l’évaluation des activités de lutte contre l’apatridie dans la régio du Bounkani. Depuis mars 2018, le HCR a […]
By Reuben Githinji Another round of Huduma Namba registration will be done for the people who missed out on the extended period, Government Spokesman Cyrus Oguna has said. He said on Thursday that after the mass registration ended on May […]
It is so absurd, to the extent that without an ID, one cannot legally die, which is what happened to my father. He does not have a death certificate because he did not have an ID. The state neither recognized […]
Berlinda Entsie The government of Ghana says it will soon lay a bill before Parliament that allows persons with dual citizenship to hold public office in the country. The bill has been described as the Diaspora Engagement Policy Bill and […]
Abrogeant et remplaçant le Code civil de 1983. Promulgué par le Décret D/2019/222/PRG/SGG du 26 juillet 2019. Repeals and replaces the Code civil of 1983. TITRE IV: DE LA NATIONALITE SECTION I: DE L’ATTRIBUTION DE LA NATIONALITÉ GUINÉENNE EN RAISON […]
[Extract from: “Digital ID in Africa this week”] As the national ID card continuation is sworn into law, ID policy in Côte d’Ivoire is proving increasingly controversial. Notions of citizenship and nationality are coming to the fore again as the […]
Very few people attended the first day of the ZHRC public hearings at Flamboyant Hotel …as public criticises elitist approach, poor publicity By Clayton Shereni Public hearings on access to national documentation being conducted by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission […]