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Egypt: Draft Amendment to Citizenship Law

Published: 4/Oct/2017
Source: Library of Congress (Washington DC)

By George Sadek (Oct. 4, 2017) On September 21, 2017, the Council of Ministers of Egypt (the Cabinet) approved an amendment to Law No. 26 of 1975 on Citizenship. The Council has referred the new amendment to the Council of […]

Egypt: People whose nationality may be revoked

Published: 4/Oct/2017
Source: Middle East Monitor

Amendments to Egypt’s Nationality Law have left numerous citizens fearing that they will have their passports revoked and may be left stateless. There are now seven cases in which the Egyptian nationality can be revoked, according to the law, these […]

Mali : Enregistrement des naissances : Le FAFE signe une convention avec 8 ONGs

Published: 3/Oct/2017
Source: MaliActu.net

Les huit (8) ONGssont CRADE et ENDA à Gao,  ENDA et AMSS à  Tombouctou, APAFE  MusoDambé,  BNCE,AJDM, le Collectif des Centres  d’Ecoute  Communautaire.En effet, les articles  7 et 8  de la Convention relative aux droits de l’enfant, l’article 6  de […]

Egypt aims to amend rules for revoking citizenship

Published: 2/Oct/2017
Source: Al Monitor

By Muhammed Magdy CAIRO — The Egyptian government’s approval Sept. 20 of a proposal to amend the country’s nationality law raised controversy among politicians, legal experts and rights activists amid fears that the amendments might be targeting opponents of current regime policies. According […]

The Right to Citizenship in Egypt’s Age of Terror

Published: 2/Oct/2017
Source: Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (Washington DC)

By: Mai El-Sadany Shortly after President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi suggested at a side meeting of the United Nations General Assembly that the state of human rights in Egypt should not be judged from a Western perspective, Egypt’s cabinet gathered to […]

Zimbabwe: RG’s Office Issues 100 000 IDs

Published: 2/Oct/2017
Source: The Herald

The Registrar-General’s Office has issued nearly 100 000 identity cards in four weeks, amid reports that some refugees have been caught trying to fraudulently obtain the identification documents. Registrar-General Mr Tobaiwa Mudede last week said finger prints were a prerequisite […]

UNHCR Campaign to End Statelessness Update October 2017

Published: 1/Oct/2017
Source: UNHCR

Information from around the world including (extracts): On 7-9 September in Mauritius, a meeting of experts from Member States of the African Union took place to discuss and review the draft “AU Protocol on Nationality”. The event was organized by […]

Free Birth Certificates For Children Born In South Africa

Published: 1/Oct/2017
Source: ZimEye

The Government must extend its programme to offer free birth certificates to Zimbabwean children who were born outside the country especially in South Africa, an official has said. Most children of Zimbabweans born outside the country especially South Africa have […]

Statelessness in West Africa: Newsletter #14 (July – September 2017)

Published: 30/Sep/2017
Source: UNHCR West Africa

Information on the Implementation of the Banjul Plan of Action, including accession of Burkina Faso to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness; and Sierra Leone’s amendment of the Citizenship Act to remove gender discrimination in transmission of citizenship […]