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Togo Convening Increases Momentum for Nationality Law Reform

Published: 12/Feb/2017
Source: Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights

This February the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights convened a national workshop on Achieving Gender Equal Nationality Rights in Togo, in partnership with national coalition member Questions des Femmes and Campaign steering committee member Equality now. The workshop brought […]

Dual US-Somali Citizen is Somalia’s New President-elect

Published: 8/Feb/2017
Source: Voice of America

Somali lawmakers elected a new president Wednesday, choosing a former prime minister who is a dual U.S.-Somali citizen. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, better known as “Farmajo,” was declared the winner after two rounds of voting by the Somali parliament in Mogadishu. […]

Angola: Justice Ministry Trains Civil Registration Technicians

Published: 8/Feb/2017
Source: Angola Press Agency

Luanda — The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (MJDH) will hold on 8-13 February a training on “Civil registration, under its subprogramme dubbed to be born with registration”, taking place at the National Institute of Judicial Studies (INEJ) in […]

Big read: Kenya’s 43rd tribe: Makonde’s long journey to identity

Published: 7/Feb/2017
Source: The Star (Nairobi)

By ALLOYS MUSYOKA When Thomas Nguli led the over 1,000 Makonde community and other stateless people from Kwale to State House, Nairobi, on October 2016, he had one thing in mind: to get recognised as Kenyan citizens. The walk, supported […]

En bref – la carte d’identité au Togo

Published: 7/Feb/2017
Source: Michael Offermann

Michael Offermann, “En bref – la carte d’identité au Togo” Présentation, Atelier national sur l’égalité du droit à la nationalité au Togo, Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights, Lomé, février 2017 Download: En bref – la carte didentite au Togo

Enfants sans identité et apatrides en Afrique de l’Ouest: quelles solutions?

Published: 6/Feb/2017
Source: RFI Afrique

2 ans exactement après la Conférence d’Abidjan, où plusieurs pays ont pris des engagements pour mettre fin à ce que l’on appelle l’apatridie, qui touche plusieurs millions de personnes, quelle est la réalité dans les familles ? Peut-on éradiquer l’apatridie […]

Maman, tu peux maintenant me donner ta nationalité malgache

Published: 5/Feb/2017
Source: Mondoblog

Pour certains d’entre nous, avoir un passeport va de soi parce que la nationalité nous a été attribuée à notre naissance sans problème ni procédure particulière. On ne se pose pas forcément la question de la difficulté éprouvée par certains […]

The World’s Stateless: Children

Published: 4/Feb/2017
Source: Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion

Press Release: International law protects the right of every child to acquire a nationality. Yet, childhood statelessness pervades all regions of the world. At least a third of the 15 million people who face life without a nationality today, are […]