Le Haut-Commissariat des Nations-Unies pour les Réfugiés (Unhcr) organise en collaboration avec Open Society Initiative for West Africa (Osiwa), Open Society Africa Regional Office (Afro) et Open Society Justice Initiative (Osji), la conférence consultative d’Afrique de l’Ouest sur le droit […]
By John Osmers Twenty-one years after the genocide, and despite a rosy picture created internationally of a healing nation, many Rwandan refugees are reluctant to return home for fear of persecution by the current regime. After those living in Zambia […]
Today, Accenture and the World Bank released a report to help developing nations create universal ID management systems. The report notes that over 1.8 billion adults in developing countries currently lack an official ID and therefore have no access to […]
How do you hold an election without registering voters? That is the question confronting Somali politicians—as well as hordes of diplomats, NGOs and other international hangers-on—trying to create a functional government in Somalia, a country that has been without a […]
This weekend the world meets to commit to the Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. For 10 million stateless people worldwide this will continue to be a dream as long as they […]
analysis BIG Brother has been watching and following the Lebanese-born but naturalised Namibian businessman Ali Fadl Ayoub for the past 15 years. But who is Ali Fadl Ayoub? Why are the authorities interested in him and suspecting him of having […]
Download: Zambia Parl Nat Sec Committee Report on Citizenship of Zambia Bill 2016
Extract from p.20 “In public debate, the conflict is often presented as a confrontation between native peoples and foreign Muslims. Yet, the public often distinguishes between good Muslims (CAR citizens) and bad Muslims (foreigners, especially Chadians). There is now a […]
by Prof. Julia Sloth-Nielsen and Marilize Ackermann The study purports to analyze the position of unaccompanied- and separated foreign children within the context of refugee- and immigration law, and explores the area where migration meets children’s rights. It looks at […]
The People’s Coalition Against Xenophobia calls for Angolans who have been legally living in South Africa with refugee status for many years to be allowed to regularise their stay in the country. In April 2013 the South African government agreed […]
PETITION NO.251 OF 2014 23. Although principally the dispute forming the substance of the present Petition is whether the Petitioner is entitled to a Kenyan passport, a number of issues would need to be determined first. They are the following; […]
Refugees from Rwanda and Burundi must have heaved sighs of relief when they heard the presidential aspirant on the Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) ticket announce that if installed as head of state he would grant citizenship to all refugees at […]