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From Kenya to Kyrgyzstan: how data can help eliminate statelessness

Published: 2/Mar/2023
Source: UNHCR

By Maja Lazić While there is a clear, legal definition of statelessness, the real number of stateless people in the world is not as clear, and the reality of their lives even less visible. Without citizenship of any country, stateless people […]

Ghana holds citizenship ceremony for two Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors

Published: 1/Mar/2023
Source: ModernGhana.com / GNA

The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) and the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (MOTAC), have held a Ghanaian Citizenship ceremony for two of the three last-known living survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre. The two, 108-year-old Viola Fletcher, and her […]

Kenya: Govt Kicks Off Citizenship Registration For Pemba Community

Published: 1/Mar/2023
Source: Capital FM (Nairobi)

NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 1 — The government has commenced the registration of over 5,000 members of the Pemba Community ahead of conferment of Kenyan citizenship following President William Ruto’s directive. Speaking in Kilifi County on Wednesday, Immigration and Citizen Services […]

South Africa: Tebogo Khoza v. Minister of Home Affairs & Another

Published: 27/Feb/2023
Source: High Court of South Africa (Gauteng Division)

Judgment declaring the applicant, a child born in South Africa in 1997 of a mother who was an irregular migrant at the time of his birth (but died while he was a child), and an unknown father, to be a […]

ZLHR ends Identity Misery and Statelessness Status of Three Minors

Published: 27/Feb/2023
Source: Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights

ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has ended the agony of three minors, who were stateless and unable to pursue their educational exploits after failing to obtain birth certificates. Two of the three minor children, whose mothers passed away in […]