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Cartographie des personnes à risque d’apatridie en Côte d’Ivoire

Published: 1/Apr/2019
Source: UNHCR & Institut National de la Statistique

Date de finalisation: avril 2019; date de publication: janvier 2020. Cette étude a été réalisée par l’Institut National de la Statistique (INS) avec l’appui technique et financier du Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les Réfugiés (HCR) et la collaboration […]

Birth registration of non-national children in South Africa, explained

Published: 1/Apr/2019
Source: Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town and Sonke Gender Justice

Keep up to date with our Teach-Yourself Series – condensed articles on current and planned changes in South African migration law. Our articles and infographics aim to spread awareness on South Africa’s migration landscape, and our standpoints on the issue. […]

UNHCR Campaign to End Statelessness update Jan – Mar 2019

Published: 31/Mar/2019
Source: UNHCR

Including the following information on African states: On 17 and 18 January, the Kenya Human Rights Commission convened a workshop on digital identity and citizenship with representatives from the Government of Kenya and from stateless communities in Naivasha, Kenya. The […]

Comité des droits de l’homme: Observations finales: Angola, 2019

Published: 28/Mar/2019
Source: UN Human Rights Committee

CCPR/C/AGO/CO/2 Observations finales concernant le deuxième rapport périodique de l’Angola Demandeurs d’asile et réfugiés 39.Le Comité prend note avec satisfaction de la politique de l’État partie visant à accueillir un grand nombre de migrants et de demandeurs d’asile sur son […]

Soumission conjointe au Conseil des Droits de l’Homme à la 34 e Session de l’Examen Périodique Universel: Madagascar

Published: 28/Mar/2019
Source: Focus Development Association, the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights (GCENR) & Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion

Introduction 1. Focus Development Association, La Campagne Mondiale Pour L’Egalité des Droits en Matière de Nationalité, et l’Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (Institute)3 présentent cette soumission conjointe à l’Examen périodique universel (EPU) sur les défis en matière de Droits de […]

South Africa: Abandoned Children Finally Registered by Home Affairs

Published: 26/Mar/2019
Source: Lawyers for Human Rights and Abba Specialist Adoption and Social Services

Lawyers for Human Rights and Abba Specialist Adoption and Social Services welcome the Department of Home Affairs’ decision to register 33 abandoned children with birth certificates, after LHR approached the Pretoria High Court on behalf of Abba Specialist Adoption and […]

Kenya: Billionaire Humphrey Kariuki challenges dual citizenship law

Published: 26/Mar/2019
Source: The Nation (Nairobi)

By MAUREEN KAKAH Business tycoon Humphrey Kariuki Ndegwa, the owner of Africa Spirits Limited who is facing a tax evasion investigation, has moved to court to challenge a law on the declaration of dual citizenship. Detectives who questioned Mr Kariuki […]