By Nasredeen Abdulbari Volume 4 Issue 1, November 2016 Incompatibilities between national laws, on the one hand, and international law, human rights rules and principles of citizenship with regard to women, their children (who are born to a foreign father) […]
Extract from Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion Bulletin on Statelessness, October 2016 At the 73rd session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (September 2016), a strong set of recommendations on protecting children’s right to a nationality […]
Extract from: Statelessness Monthly Bulletin October 2016 Members of the Makonde community in Kenya, after 40 years of statelessness, have finally found recognition as Kenyan citizens. The Makonde people say they were born in Kenya after their forefathers arrived in […]
[2016] UKPC 30 Privy Council Appeal No 0006 of 2016 1. The National Identity Card Act 1985 (“the 1985 Act”) provides for adult citizens of Mauritius to carry identity cards which bear their names and signatures. More recently, the […]
By Louzel Lombard Cape Town – The Department of Home Affairs has scrapped having two versions of the birth certificate, an abridged (issued for new-borns up until 2013) and an unabridged birth certificate detailing both parents details (issued to all […]
By BALDWIN NDABA Johannesburg – An SANDF member has taken Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba to the high court after his department allegedly refused to register his eight-month-old daughter, born to a Congolese woman, as a South African national. […]
Yet another community that has been in the country for decades and never succeeded as being recognised as Kenyan citizens, Friday paid President Uhuru Kenyatta a courtesy call at State House Nairobi. The Isahakia community, a native Somali community was among the first people […]
President Uhuru Kenyatta has affirmed that the government is committed to uniting the country and serving all Kenyans without discrimination. The President said Kenyans should shun tribalism and join hands in building a country that they will always be proud […]
IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by section 9 (2) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Co-ordination of National Government declares that: 1. With effect from the 1st November, 2016 the registration of […]
Decision adopted unanimously by the IPU Governing Council at its 199th session (Geneva, 27 October 2016) The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, […] 1. Notes with satisfaction that a passport has been issued to Mr. Chalupa for humanitarian reasons, […]
Registration of live births improves… … but not every pregnancy results to a live birth and not every live birth survives The Recorded live births 2013-2015 and the Perinatal deaths 2014, reports released by Statistics South Africa indicate that of […]
By: Wanja Lisa Munaita NAIROBI, Kenya – Amina Kassim would like to register to vote in the next elections in Kenya, where she was born and has lived all her life, but is unable to do so. Descended from an ethnic […]