By Nezo Sobekwa, Luyanda Ndaba COMMENT “To be stateless is like you don’t exist; you live in a parallel world with no proof of your identity,” says Leal in a United Nations Refugee Agency video, Voices of Stateless: Leal’s Story […]
CRC/C/GIN/CO/3-6 Concluding observations on the combined third to sixth periodic reports of Guinea Extract: Birth registration 21.The Committee notes the ongoing reform undertaken by the State party to improve State functions in the area of civil status matters, including the […]
Art.42: “Every recognized refugee or asylum seeker who fulfils the necessary requirements provided in the relevant provisions of the Ethiopian Nationality Law relating to naturalization may apply to acquire Ethiopian Nationality by law.” Download from REFWORLD: https://www.refworld.org/docid/44e04ed14.html
CABINET on Tuesday approved amendments to the Zimbabwe Citizenship Bill to allow dual citizenship as part of the on-going process of aligning the country’s laws with the 2013 national constitution. The current Act prohibits the simultaneous holding of a Zimbabwean […]
Cabinet has approved principles for the amendment of the Zimbabwe Citizenship Bill as Government works on ensuring that people born in the country are granted dual citizenship in line with the new Constitution adopted in 2013. Briefing journalists after yesterday’s […]
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 26 February 2019: West Africa is today celebrating the fourth anniversary of the Abidjan Declaration on the eradication of statelessness, adopted by all the Member States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Four years after their […]
By Mustafa Mahmoud On the 18th of February 2019, the government of Kenya rolled out the National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS), more popularly known as Huduma Namba (Swahili for “Service Number”). The system is intended to create and operate […]
By Calum Handforth, Insights Manager (Digital Identity); Matthew Wilson, Senior Insights Manager (Digital Identit Official proof of identity is fundamental to an individual’s ability to enforce their rights and secure access to a wide range of vital services such as […]
By Calum Handforth, Insights Manager (Digital Identity); Matthew Wilson, Senior Insights Manager (Digital Identity) Official proof of identity is fundamental to an individual’s ability to enforce their rights and secure access to a wide range of vital services such as […]
By Calum Handforth, Insights Manager (Digital Identity); Matthew Wilson, Senior Insights Manager (Digital Identity) Introduction Official proof of identity is fundamental to an individual’s ability to enforce their rights and secure access to a wide range of vital services such […]
She faces prohibitive costs and may lose her job By Bernard Chiguvare Since 2008, Melody* has been living and working in South Africa. She is legally in the country with a Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP), but her two children need […]
La Loi No.61-025 du 09 octobre 1961 est abrogée. Article 45: Les déclarations de naissance doivent être faites dans les trente jours de la naissance. Article 46: L’acte de naissance doit énoncer – le jour, l’heure et le lieu de […]