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CEDAW Concluding Observations: Kenya, 2017

Published: 17/Nov/2017
Source: UN Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women

CEDAW/C/KEN/CO/8 Extract: Nationality 32. The Committee commends the State party on its decision to issue identity cards and title deeds to the Makonde and Nubian Peoples, and takes note of its declared intention to do the same for other stateless […]

South Africa: No school, no job and no income without an ID

Published: 16/Nov/2017
Source: Independent Online (South Africa)

By Bongani Nkosi AT 17, Pule Mahluza knows too well he is facing a doomed future and a life in perpetual limbo without an identity document. The teenager from Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, has never had a birth certificate, a […]

Cameroun: Lutte contre l’apatridie, le HCR sonne la mobilisation

Published: 16/Nov/2017
Source: Cameroon Tribune

Une marche de sensibilisation organisée samedi dernier dans les artères de Yaoundé. C’est l’histoire de Léandre, réfugié rwandais qui a participé, à côté de plusieurs diplomates et de nombreux anonymes, à la marche contre l’apatridie, samedi 11 novembre dernier au […]

Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai, Ncube challenge Mudede over ‘aliens’

Published: 15/Nov/2017
Source: NewsDay (Harare)

THE Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC-T and Welshmen Ncube’s MDC have jointly approached the High Court, demanding that Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede stops forcing “alien Zimbabweans” to renounce dual citizenship as a prerequisite to be issued with new identification cards to facilitate their […]

Zimbabwe: MDC Alliance slams ‘aliens’ discrimination

Published: 14/Nov/2017
Source: NewsDay (Harare)

THE MDC Alliance has expressed concern over the sidelining of the so-called aliens in the biometric voter registration (BVR) exercise, describing the move as a violation of their right to vote. BY SILAS NKALA This came after Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede […]

Activists call to end suffering of stateless after South Sudan independence

Published: 13/Nov/2017
Source: Sudan Tribune

November 12, 2017 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese activists have launched a campaign to end the suffering of thousands of people that are denied the Sudanese nationality after the independence of South Sudan particularly those whose mothers are Sudanese. After South Sudan […]

Cameroun : des déplacés menacés de devenir apatrides

Published: 13/Nov/2017
Source: TV5 Monde

Dans l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun, les populations déplacées dans le camp de Zamai qui ont fui les exactions de la secte terroriste de Boko Haram risquent de perdre leur nationalité, faute d’avoir emporté avec eux leurs papiers d’identité. Ce sont des […]