Identity cards are meant to identify the individuals identity and the purpose of introduction has nothing to do with Voting and ELECTIONS at all. it’s a long term project that will have great benefits to the people of Somaliland origin […]
Members of the Constituent Assembly started their eight-day debate on the 12 committees reports on the constitution draft on Tuesday, with the Kadhi court, dual citizenship and structure of the union remaining touchy. Read more.
By GABRIELLE LYNCH In Summary While the 1999 National Census opted not to publish ethnic data, the 2009 count provided codes for no less than 111 ethnic groups. The Nubians, for example, argued that, while their forefathers had come to […]
Ivory Coast has some 700,000 stateless people within its borders, one of the biggest stateless populations in the world By Misha Hussain TENKODOUGOU, Ivory Coast, Sept 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Three years after the civil war, patriotic sentiment is […]
By Laura Goodwin Mohammad Javed is an Urdu-speaking entrepreneur living in the middle of Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. Looking to grow his business, Mohammad decided to travel to India to start importing spare auto-rickshaw parts for his own […]
First short film by Dee Lourens for Lawyers for Human Rights, tells the story of Frederik, a stateless man in South Africa. View the video.
“This report was written by Dr.Laura van Waas of the Statelessness Programme, Tilburg Law School. The analysis of the nationality laws was undertaken jointly with Ms. Zahra Albarazi, also of the Statelessness Programme in Tilburg and input on specific laws […]
Requirements relating to paternity tests in respect of registration of births and referral to national health laboratory services. Download: SADeptHomeAffairs-DNA-Circular-5-2014
Most Constituent Assembly (CA) committees have supported the idea of granting ‘special status’ as opposed to dual-citizenship to people of Tanzanian origin who have willingly obtained citizenship in foreign countries. The second draft constitution compiled by the now defunct Constitutional […]
Descendants of Omani nationals have found themselves at risk of statelessness in Burundi after so many years living in this country. They face difficulties in getting papers and are not eligible to thesame privileges and rights that Burundi’s citizens receive.–By […]
A Ministra dos Assuntos Parlamentares, Rosa Luís de Sousa Micolo, participou terça-feira, 12 de Agosto de 2014, na Sessão Plenária da Assembleia Nacional, que aprovou, na generalidade, a proposta de Lei de Alteração à Lei da Nacionalidade. O Diploma vai […]
Romuald Likibi, docteur en sciences politiques à la faculté de droit de l’université Nancy II en France s’est engagé à travers l’écriture à promouvoir les droits humains. Sa dernière parution parle de l’apatridie. DANS cette interview ACCORDÉE à Sidwaya l’écrivain […]