Mary, a Liberian refugee born in Liberia to Liberian parents, gave birth to a child in 2003 in Ghana where she is now resident. The father of the child is unknown; neither can the mother trace any relative of the […]
More than 10 million people around the world are classified as “stateless”, or without nationality. Close to a million of these people live in Ivory Coast. The BBC’s Tamasin Ford reports from Koupela, near Bouafle, in the centre of the […]
By Kelsey P. Norman January 7 2015 Images of migrants and refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea by boat from North Africa to Europe were rampant in 2014. Most news stories reporting on this topic either focused on the dangerous and […]
By Betsy Fisher, In 2013, an unmarried couple in Dubai was accused of gross child abuse for keeping their eight-year-old daughter from enrolling in school or receiving healthcare and immunizations. However, the couple denied that they intended to harm the child. […]
Human rights groups are warning that Kenya’s controversial Security Amendment Act still poses a threat to refugees’ rights despite a high court decision on Friday that suspends parts of the bill for 30 days pending a full court hearing. The […]
Nothing would seem simpler than recording the name, sex, parentage, and time and place of a child’s birth. However, this “first rights” of a child, as enshrined in both the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the […]
By Samia Bourouba In cooperation with: Higher School of Magistracy – Algeria. Judicial Institute of Jordan. Supreme Council of the Judiciary – Iraq. Iraqi Judicial Institute. Higher Institute of the Judiciary – Morocco. Palestinian Judicial Institute Information includes analysis of […]
Including A Day in the Life of Liesl Muller What does Lawyers for Human Rights’ work on statelessness look like? Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) is an implementing partner to UNHCR for statelessness. We focus on advocacy for the protection […]
Reports on the launch of the 10 year campaign to end statelessness, and steps already taken, including the December 2014 adoption by the Latin American and Caribbean States of the Brazil Declaration and Plan of Action, in which they committed […]
Une proposition de loi actuellement entre les mains de la commission de la justice et des droits de l’Homme de la première Chambre donnera la possibilité aux femmes Marocaines de transmettre la nationalité à leur conjoints étrangers. Cette possibilité existe […]
Moki Edwin Kindzeka Cameroon gained total control of West Africa’s Bakassi pensinsula in August 2013, following a prescribed five-year transition from Nigeria. But most of the oil-rich area’s 300,000 inhabitants still are Nigerians. Now, Cameroon’s military has begun cracking down […]
Ils réclament d’être rétablis dans leurs droits de citoyens omanais, depuis de nombreuses années. « Depuis 2009, nous réclamons notre nationalité, en vain ! », lance Nassor Mohamed, représentant des ressortissants omanais au Burundi. Ils se plaignent de l’interminable procédure […]