The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU), at its 661st meeting held on 23 February 2017, at the ministerial level, adopted the following decision on Free Movement of People and Goods and its Implications on Peace […]
It is 15 February 2017, and the sun has barely risen. At Scalabrini’s offices in the centre of Cape Town, a group of advocacy officers meet to transport hundreds of files to the South African parliament. Despite their exhaustion, adrenalin […]
Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter There has been a call for the relaxation of requirements for acquiring identity registration such as birth certificates to enable people without parents and aliens, but who have been resident in Zimbabwe for years, easy access […]
Hon. Sani Zorro, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) has disclosed Nigeria’s government plan to issue United Nations passport to people at risk of being stateless. Zorro made this known during an interview with the News […]
Monrovia, Liberia, 25 February 2017 – Liberia is today commemorating the second anniver-sary of the Abidjan Declaration on the eradication of statelessness. The Declaration, adopted on 25 February 2015 by the Member States of the Economic Community of West African […]
About 67 children of school going aged in Aliwal North in the Eastern Cape have been barred from going to school because they have NO birth certificates. Fourteen of the children are born to South African parents who NEVER applied […]
Dakar, 22 Fév 2017: A l’occasion du 2ème anniversaire de la Déclaration d’Abidjan*, l’UNHCR et le Ministère de la Justice du Sénégal se félicitent des avancées dans la lutte contre l’apatridie. “L’éradication de l’apatridie est une question de volonté politique. […]
By: Leroy M. Sonpon III The House of Representatives is reviewing the option to allot funds for the production and release of national identification (ID) cards for all Liberians. The House’s Committees on State Enterprise, Judiciary and Ways, Means, Finance […]
Par Ebrin Brou avec Agences Une attaque meurtrière dans le village de Kyaghala à l’Est de la République démocratique du Congo a fait 25 morts dont 24 victimes décapitées et une femme tuée par balles. Ils étaient tous de l’ethnie […]
Eddie Cross says the Zanu-PF govt has been determined to deny anyone with foreign ancestry their birthright citizenship I am a Zimbabwean Citizen and my African roots go back to 1867 when my Great Grandfather came out on a sailing […]
On 15, 16 and 17 February 2017, the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town (SCCT) submitted 1,757 applications for permanent residency to the Department of Home Affairs (DHA). These applications were made by a group of Angolan former refugees who, upon […]
By Bernadette Wolhuter A FATHER’S desperate wish to have his daughters recognised as South African citizens was finally realised this week when they were both issued with birth certificates, but he was not around to witness it. The Durban man, […]