By Ingvild Vetrhus In Mali, women without identity cards are particularly susceptible to harassment – and are often left with no legal rights in their home country. “Without the ID card, I can’t go to school. I can’t even vote,” […]
Concluding observations on the combined third to fifth periodic reports of Malawi CRC/C/MWI/CO/3-5 Birth registration 17.While noting the enforcement in 2015 of the National Registration Act, the Committee is concerned that: (a)Births are registered before the mother is discharged from […]
A HUMAN rights and peace watchdog has accused authorities at the Registrar General’s Office of forcing poor villagers to pay in cash and kind to obtain identity documents ahead of a by-election in Mwenezi East constituency. BY SILAS NKALA The […]
Une délégation de l’Organisation internationale de la francophonie (OIF) est en visite officielle au Burkina Faso. Conduite par sa première responsable, la délégation de l’OIF et le Maire de Ouagadougou, Armand Roland Pierre Béouindé, ont visité une maternité pilote de […]
CRC/C/CAF/CO/2 Birth registration name and nationality 32.The Committee welcomes the measures taken to promote birth registration, in particular decree No. 14.228 of 2014 providing free birth registration to children born during the conflict that took place between 2012 and 2014, […]
La chercheuse marocaine Hind Tak-Tak, également professeure universitaire à la Faculté de droit de Casablanca, vient de publier un nouvel ouvrage aux éditions En Toutes Lettres. Intitulé «La nationalité marocaine», la publication qui ambitionne de rendre le droit accessible à […]
By Prega Govender Schools close to the Mozambique and Swaziland borders in Mpumalanga are refusing to admit hundreds — and possibly thousands — of learners because they don’t have South African birth certificates and identity documents, a Mail & Guardian […]
Statutory Instrument 3 of 2017, issued under authority of the Immigration Act 2015. Part VI regulates issue of passports and other travel documents. Download : Nigeria Immigration Regulations SI 3 2017
Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees For the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ Compilation Report Universal Periodic Review: 3rd Cycle, 28th Session ZAMBIA I. BACKGROUND INFORMATION Zambia succeeded to the 1951 Convention relating to the […]
Le Projet d’Amélioration de la Gouvernance Locale pour l’Exercice de la Maitrise d’Ouvrage Communal (PAGLEMOC) de l’Union des Communes du Togo (UCT) vient d’accoucher l’Observatoire National de l’Etat Civil (ONEC). Lire la suite
CRC/C/COD/CO/3-5 Birth registration 21.The Committee takes note of the information provided by the State party regarding the establishment of the national identification office, which will be tasked with providing all Congolese nationals with identification, but expresses its grave concern that, […]
By Pamela Ofori-Boateng Although Ghana pledged in 2015 to end statelessness in 2016, it still remains one of the few West African countries yet to implement the national action plan to eradicate statelessness. The Abidjan Declaration was adopted in 2015 […]