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Birth Registration in Nigeria: Making Children Count

Published: 1/Jan/2013
Source: UNICEF

A Bottleneck Analysis of the National Birth Registration System The purpose of this report is to examine the situation of birth registration in Nigeria, including: ††Integrating existing data, including RapidSMS data, regarding the scale of non-registration †Outlining the profiles of […]

A responsibility to protect: UNHCR and statelessness in Egypt

Published: 1/Jan/2013
Source: UNHCR

By Eirwen-Jane Pierrot To date there has been no comprehensive research on instances of statelessness in Egypt, which has negatively impacted how government, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and other organisations have been able to deal with […]

Zambia begins granting Angolan refugees permanent residency

Published: 31/Dec/2012
Source: UNHCR

By Mohammed Abu Asaker, ed. Leo Dobbs LUSAKA, Zambia, 31 December – Jose Pinto, a refugee for 33 years, can now call Zambia his permanent home after he and his family became the first former Angolan refugees to be granted permanent […]

South Sudan accuses Sudan of “rounding up” its nationals in Darfur

Published: 30/Dec/2012
Source: Sudan Tribune

South Sudan accused the Sudanese government Monday of “rounding up” its nationals living in the troubled western region of Darfur, which shares a direct border with the South’s Western and Northern Bahr el Ghazal State. Juba made the allegation in […]

Naturalisation : Pas facile de devenir Mauritanien

Published: 23/Dec/2012
Source: Mauritanités (http://medseib.mondoblog.org)

Par Sneiba Mohamed Nous faisons toujours du tort aux autres, nous ne faisons pas attention aux nombreux domaines où la critique portée sur eux est également valable pour nous. Cette remarque s’est imposée à moi, quand, au détour d’une question […]

CRC Concluding Observations: Liberia, 2012

Published: 13/Dec/2012
Source: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

CRC/C/LBR/CO/2-4 Concluding observations on the combined second to fourth periodic reports of Liberia, adopted by the Committee at its sixty-first session (17 September-5 October 2012) Name and nationality 41. The Committee regrets that, despite its previous recommendation, the granting of […]

Acquisition, Retention and Change of Ethiopian Nationality

Published: 6/Dec/2012
Source: Permanent Mission of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to the UN Office at Geneva

Response to UNHCR note on discrimination against women in nationality-related matters. Download: Ethiopian govt statement on nationality + sex discrimination 2012