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 […]
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 […]