Over the last two days Madagascar has taken significant steps towards eradicating gender discrimination in its nationality law and eliminating statelessness. If a reformed law is implemented it would ensure, amongst other things, that women are no longer discriminated against […]
The United Nations High Commission on Refugees has stressed the need for urgent action against childhood statelessness. UNHCR says stateless children across the world share similar feelings of discrimination, frustration and despair. Speaking Tuesday in Monrovia at press conference, UNHCR […]
Au moins un million de personnes sont apatrides ou à risque d’apatridie en Afrique de l’Ouest. Plus de la moitié sont des enfants. Tous souffrent notamment de ne pas avoir de papiers. DAKAR, SENEGAL, 3 novembre 2015 (HCR) -Les facteurs […]
LLOCUTION D’OUVERTURE DE SEM RAKOTOMAMONJY Jean Max PRESIDENT DE L’ASSEMBLEE NATIONALE Soixante sept ans après la déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme, son effectivité dans divers aspects laisse encore à désirer. Force est, cependant, de constaterque la plupart des Etats […]
In July and August 2015, UNHCR spoke to more than 250 children, young people, their parents and guardians, civil society and governments in seven countries: Côte d’Ivoire, the Dominican Republic, Georgia, Italy, Jordan, Malaysia and Thailand, about the experience of […]
Video de 7 minutes par le HCR.
The purpose of this report is to compare the legal frameworks governing birth registration in eleven jurisdictions. Birth registration is the process by which a child’s birth is recorded in the civil register by the applicable government authority. It provides […]
By Faith Tigere SS v Presiding Officer, Children’s Court, Krugersdorp and Others 2012 (6) SA 45 (GSJ) ‘Children are the soul of our society. If we fail them, then we have failed as a society.’ These are the words of […]
by Bronwen Manby How do the contours of statelessness vary from continent to continent? To what extent is the nature of statelessness directly tied to the nature of the state? Europe, after all, invented the “nation-state”, the idea that each […]
Le président d’une Association Sans But Lucratif dénommée «Nouvelle génération pour l’émergence du Congo » a affirmé le week-end dernier que l’acceptation d’une nationalité multiple par la constitution congolaise est incontournable aujourd’hui pour l’émergence de la RDC. Constant Mutamba dit […]
Less than a month after the adoption of the new global development agenda – Agenda 2030 – the question “A Legal Identity for All by 2030: What Will It Take?” brought together 32 development practitioners and scholars for a three-day […]
Le recensement biométrique des électeurs au Tchad sera lancé lundi sur tout le territoire national, selon un décret du président Idriss Déby Itno publié samedi sur la radio télévision publique. “Les opérations électorales qui démarrent le 26 octobre prochain, constituent […]