BAUCHI –The United Nations Children Fund(UNICEF) has stressed the need for parents to register their children at birth, saying that birth registration protects them from exploitation and abuse as Children without birth certificates are more vulnerable to child labor, child […]
Le Ministre des Collectivités territoriales, de l’Aménagement et du Développement des Territoires a procédé au lancement de la Campagne nationale d’information et de sensibilisation sur l’état civil, autour du slogan, « Mon état civil, ma citoyenneté ». L’événement s’est déroulé, […]
(Togo Officiel) – Après le recensement général de la population et le recensement électoral en cours, le président togolais, Faure Gnassingbé, a annoncé lors d’une interview avec la chaîne New World TV, en marge des festivités du 63e anniversaire de […]
La proposition de « loi Tshiani », proposé par Noël Tshiani Muadiamvita et porté par le député national Nsingi Pululu, voudrait que seuls les citoyens nés de père et de mère congolais soient légitimes à accéder aux plus hautes fonctions […]
(Kinshasa) – The Democratic Republic of Congo’s parliament should reject a draft law that authorities could use to discriminate against Congolese citizens on the basis of their parents’ national origin, Human Rights Watch said today. The law would exclude from […]
Preamble The Member States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), with technical support from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Committed to the implementation of Action 6 […]
By Jennifer Riggan. RLC Briefing Paper 3 Abstract This briefing paper explains why many Eritreans speak Amharic and why it is plausible that, under certain circumstances, an Eritreans might not speak Tigrinya or another Eritrean language. In order to explore […]
Highlights Emergencies infringe on many individual basic rights, including access to a name and a nationality. In almost all emergencies, including armed conflicts, natural disasters and human-made hazards, vital event registration systems become dysfunctional and, in extreme cases, they collapse […]
Africa has seen an increase in the deployment and use of digital technologies and in its attempt to establish and improve national identification and registration systems across the region. Countries in Africa are progressively restructuring their civil registration systems in […]
By Ayang Macdonald This December could usher in good tidings for citizens of the central African nation of Gabon who have gone for many years without seeing any new issuance of the national ID card. This is if things roll […]
La campagne s’inscrit dans le cadre des engagements pris par le gouvernement de la République du Congo en matière de lutte contre l’apatridie sur l’ensemble de son territoire. L’initiative de cette organisation vise la prévention de l’apatridie. Cette deuxième phase concerne […]
By ZELDA VENTER WITH the intervention of the court, a boy born nearly four years ago will, for the first time, officially have a name and legal standing in South Africa after red tape has denied him of this right […]