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South Africa: Civil Registration a Human Right, Says Minister

Published: 2/Dec/2016
Source: SANews.gov.za

Pretoria — Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba says policies and legislation have been developed to continue to ensure an efficient civil registration. “In South Africa, the right to a name, identity, citizenship and to be registered at birth is a […]

CCPR Concluding observations: Morocco, 2016

Published: 1/Dec/2016
Source: UN Human Rights Committee

CCPR/C/MAR/CO/6 Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of Morocco Asylum seekers and refugees 35. The Committee welcomes the State party’s efforts to develop a legal framework on migration, asylum and human trafficking. It finds it regrettable that the regularization […]

UNHCR Liberia Factsheet November 2016

Published: 1/Dec/2016
Source: UNHCR

Extract: Mission to Re-vet Red-Coded Cases. The mission to re-vet former Liberian refugees who were at risk of statelessness, as a result of the Government of Liberia red-coding them on nationality grounds, continues. The team was in Ghana from 31 […]

Legal Identity For All – Ending Statelessness in SADC

Published: 1/Dec/2016
Source: Southern Africa Litigation Centre

By Liesl H. Muller, chapter in Goal 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals: Perspectives from Judges and Lawyers in Southern Africa on Promoting Rule of Law and Equal Access to Justice Introduction In the past year significant progress has been made […]

A Day in the Life of UNHCR Protection Officer in Cote d’Ivoire

Published: 30/Nov/2016
Source: Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion

Extract from Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion Bulletin for November 2016 Interview with Laura Parker Can you give us a short description of the type of work you do? I plan and coordinate statelessness activities for UNHCR in Côte d’Ivoire, […]

Palestinians of Egypt: Collateral damage since 2013

Published: 30/Nov/2016
Source: MadaMasr.com

By Heba Afify At a sit-in by the Ministry of Defense in East Cairo in June 2013, an Egyptian protester held a sign that read, “Palestinians equal Israel for us.” Protesters were demanding that Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi end […]

New mobile phone system ‘mBirth’ registers Tanzania’s invisible children

Published: 28/Nov/2016
Source: Thomas Reuters Foundation News

By Kizito Makoye NJOMBE, Tanzania, Nov 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – At Lunyanywi village in Tanzania’s southern highlands, local residents gather to welcome a new member of their community. Antonia Kisena and her husband Moses are celebrating the birth of […]

Côte d’Ivoire: New Constitution Adopted

Published: 25/Nov/2016
Source: US Library of Congress

(Nov. 25, 2016) Alassane Ouattara, the President of Côte d’Ivoire, promulgated a new Constitution on November 8, 2016.  (Côte d’Ivoire: Alassane Ouattara promulgue la nouvelle Constitution [Côte d’Ivoire: Alassane Ouattara Promulgates the New Constitution], JEUNE AFRIQUE (Nov. 8, 2016); Loi […]

Guinée: Compte rendu du conseil des ministres du 24 novembre 2016

Published: 25/Nov/2016
Source: Conseil des ministres (Guinéenews.org)

Le Ministre de la Justice a soumis au Conseil un projet de Décret portant création du programme National pour l’éradication de l’apatridie en Guinée. Il a indiqué que ce projet de décret compte 21 articles répartis en 04 chapitres : […]