By Ghady Abdulaziz Tens of thousands of stateless people live in Libya. Successive governments have been holding out the prospect of citizenship to them for decades – and complicate everything ever more. The family of Yousef Abdulkareem, a 54-year-old teacher, […]
By Gaye Sowe and Maria Saine This report is organised as follows. The first part sets out the historical background of the legal framework of the Gambia’s citizenship regime. It looks at both the colonial history and the constitutional history […]
By Bronwen Manby In September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), painstakingly elaborated by the combined mass of global development actors, established the target that states should, by 2030, ‘provide legal identity for all, including birth registration’. The SDG target […]
AS many as 300 out of 700 learners at a primary school in Kezi, Matabeleland South province, were found to have no identity documents during a fact-finding mission by a Parliamentary committee, rendering them stateless. This was revealed by Umzingwane […]
Par Nadia Henni-Moulaï Une disposition de loi, annoncée le 3 mars par le Garde des sceaux Belkacem Zeghmati propose de déchoir de leur nationalité les Algériens de l’étranger mettant en péril « les intérêts de l’État ». Le constitutionnaliste Massensen […]
Le Gestionnaire-Mandataire de l’ANIP, M Cyrille Gougbédji a lancé ce jeudi 18 mars 2021, la distribution des cartes nationales d’identité biométriques. La cérémonie de lancement a eu lieu en présence de la représentante du Chef de l’État, Mme Laurence Quenum […]
Validation workshop on the qualitative study on STATELESSNESS and the risk of STATELESSNESS in NAMIBIA. Watch: https://www.facebook.com/LACNamibia/videos/196548955575073/
A Motswana woman married to a Norwegian man has taken the Botswana Government to court demanding that her children be granted dual citizenship, which is currently outlawed in Botswana. Botswana currently does not allow for dual citizenship under any circumstances. […]
Le ministre de la justice souhaiterait déchoir de la nationalité tout citoyen qui, depuis l’étranger, « porte préjudice aux intérêts de l’État ». Par Mustapha Kessous et Madjid Zerrouky Colère et stupéfaction. Parmi les Algériens vivant à l’étranger, l’émoi provoqué […]
By Khonani Ontebetse Government faces a Unity Dowesque case in which a Motswana woman married to a Norwegian is challenging the legality of forcing her children to choose between the citizenship of either parent before they are adults. Currently children […]
People who find themselves stateless in South Africa struggle to rectify their situation By Marecia Damons Zimbabwean-born Primrose Modisane has been living in South Africa for 20 years without an ID or birth certificate. “It’s difficult because I can’t open […]
By Brightwell Chabusha Government has expressed happiness with the high number of Zambians applying to have their citizenship restored after renunciation. Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo said the response for dual citizenship has been overwhelming. He said this in Johannesburg, […]