Nationality is a legal bond between a state and an individual, and statelessness refers to the condition of an individual who is not considered as a national by any State. Everyone has the right to a nationality and the right […]
Statelessness refers to the condition of an individual who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law.Although stateless people may sometimes also be refugees, the two categories are distinct in international law. Statelessness […]
Editorial As dates go, 10 November 2012 may not have a place in our political history, but it was the day the House of Representatives held simultaneous peoples’ public sessions in Nigeria’s 360 federal constituencies – they all started at […]
Nigeria has a bad reputation when it comes to fraud. “Dear Friend” emails originating from the country – also known as 419 scams – are among the most notorious in the world, with statistics from Ultrascan AGI suggesting losses from […]
UNHCR is publishing a series of Good Practices Papers to help States, with the support of other stakeholders, achieve the goals of its Campaign to End Statelessness within 10 Years. Each Good Practices Paper corresponds to one of the 10 […]
“The back of a police van is the only place that feels like home.” This is the plight of a young man, Singejeje Adel, who has no family and no country that regards him as theirs. He is stateless. Adel, […]
Liberian government officials, along with the leaders of various civil society organizations, religious and youth groups have joined together in support of UNHCR’s global campaign against statelessness. “Statelessness is simply a malaise facing mankind which all states must commit to […]
In 2007, when Allan-Roy Sekeitto won the opportunity to participate in a continental reality television show, Imagine Africa, its organisers profiled him as a representative of two countries; South Africa and Uganda. He was born in neither. Sekeitto, now 28, […]
CRC/C/GMB/CO/2-3 Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of the Gambia Birth registration/name and nationality 35. While welcoming the progress made in birth registration, the Committee remains concerned about: (a) The huge number of children who are […]
Monrovia – The Head of the Independent National Commission on Human Rights (INCHR) and retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia Cllr. Gladys K. Johnson has defended the “Negro Clause” in the Liberian constitution, which forbids white people […]
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, almost half of the world’s forcibly displaced people are children. A number of factors lead to the migration of foreign children to South Africa. Some flee conflict and unrest, natural disaster […]
Makonde and Pemba people from Mozambique and Tanzania who do not want to become Kenyans will be sent back to their countries of origin. The warning was made on Thursday by Msambweni Sub-County Commissioner Mwangangi Mwania, following reports that some […]