By Phelix Lore, Executive Director for Haki Centre, a human rights organization working in the coastal region of Kenya. Mr. Lore has been involved in research, advocacy and awareness raising on issues of statelessness and citizenship for the past five […]
At least 10 million people around the world are stateless, according to estimates from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), but the real number may be much higher. Statelessness severely limits a person’s human rights, including access to […]
Durban – An 8-year-old girl will attend school for the very first time on Monday morning after her desperate parents – whose battle to obtain a birth certificate for her or enrol her at a school without one had come […]
This report was prepared in the context of the Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative, the World Bank Group’s cross-departmental effort to support progress towards identification systems using 21st century solutions. Download from World Bank website.
Haki Centre is a registered Non-Governmental, non-partisan human rights organization working within the coastal region of Kenya. The organization was formed to sensitize and empower the community on their rights, thereby overcoming the social and cultural hurdles that hinder enjoyment […]
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) represents a couple who are asking the Department of Home Affairs to register their two children and provide them with the children’s birth certificates. The couple approached the LRC after they were unable to register […]
Reports on the first anniversary of the Abidjan Declaration to end statelessness in West Africa, as well as a meeting of the Migration Dialogue for Southern Africa and a January 2016 Memorandum of Understanding between the Southern Africa Trade Union […]
This Shadow Report to the South Africa State report to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) is submitted as a joint report by a coalition of Civil Society Organisations working in South Africa on various thematic areas […]
HOME affairs minister Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana says Namibians still using the old South West Africa identification cards should apply for new ones because the colonial document will be phased out on 31 March next year. In her budget speech in the […]
Spotlight on: Anniversary of the Abidjan Declaration A day in the life of… Focus Development Association, human rights NGO in Madagascar “The resolution of statelessness means so much to the affected population in terms of their condition, emotions and dignity. […]
The National Identification Authority (Nida) is finalising legal arrangements to start using the National Electoral Commission (NEC) database in registration and issuing national IDs. The move revealed by Nida acting director general Modestus Kipilimba is a major about-turn by the […]
South Africans are fortunate enough to be allowed to hold more than two nationalities. It is, however, important to note that a person must first apply to retain his or her South African citizenship before taking on any other nationality […]