Lawyers for Human Rights made written submissions to the parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs, to highlight the statelessness crisis in South Africa. Download the full report here.
The Federal Government has announced the conferment of citizenship by naturalisation and registration to 286 foreign nationals from 49 countries. In an advertorial signed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Dr Shuaib Belgore, and made available to Sunday PUNCH […]
By R. Joyclyn Wea The Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court of Liberia are at each other’s throat, legally dabbling to fine-tune the authorization of Liberian citizenship or issuance of Liberian passport to natural born Liberian citizens in foreign […]
By Zelda Venter Pretoria – A man who has lived in South Africa for 40 years after he fled here in the early 1980s following the political assassination of his father is one step closer to officially calling the country […]
Le certificat de naissance est un document essentiel pour chaque nouveau-né. Les enfants dont les parents n’en ont pas fait établir un à leur naissance n’ont pas les mêmes droits que les autres au regard de la loi. Au Togo, […]
[Press statement] LHR’s Statelessness Project is in the Pretoria High Court today representing a stateless person who has waited 4 years for a decision from the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) on his application for legal status. Mr. Kganyapa has […]
Says ALCOD’s Eminent Chairman Emmanuel S. Wettee The Eminent Chairman of the All-Liberian Conference on Dual Citizenship (ALCOD), Eminent Emmanuel S. Wettee, has come up to provide clarity on the new Dual Citizenship Law, saying it does not make natural-born […]
by Christiana Nwaogu Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has flayed the Nigerian Constitution over its discriminatory stance against women on matters of citizenship, saying the federal government was moving to address and put an end to statelessness. Speaking yesterday […]
By Tina Abeku, Abuja The Federal Government yesterday launched a National Action Plan, (NAP), to eradicate statelessness in Nigeria in line with the international treaties and conventions on the status of stateless persons towards upholding basic human rights, ending vulnerability […]
The Federal Government has restated its determination to eradicate statelessness by 2024. This position was stated by the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Friday, during the launching and inauguration of high power steering committee on National Action Plan on […]
Introduction Statelessness is a global phenomenon whereby a person is not recognised as a national of any State under the operation of its laws. The 1954 UN Convention relating to the status of Stateless persons and the 1961 UN Convention […]
La ministre de la justice et garde de sceaux, Rose Mutombo, a procédé hier mercredi 31 août à l’ouverture de l’atelier technique sur l’adoption d’un plan pour l’amélioration du cadre juridique sur l’apatridie en République démocratique du Congo. Selon la […]