Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Court Reporter A BULAWAYO woman born to Zambian parents has taken the Registrar-General Mr Tobaiwa Mudede to court challenging his refusal to grant her Zimbabwean citizenship. Mrs Ketty Twasa (75), through her lawyers Moyo and Nyoni Legal […]
« Pour faire exister les enfants invisibles », c’est le slogan du programme Birth registration for all oblivion (BRAVO), de la Communauté de Saint’Egidio. Selon la responsable de BRAVO au Burkina, Colette Guiébré, c’est un programme qui intervient dans l’enregistrement des naissances, […]
Monrovia – The Union of Liberia Associations in the Americas (ULAA) is seeking the passage of the dual citizens’ bill to allow Liberians who have taken citizenship in other countries to come home and contribute to the development of Liberia. […]
by Jumoke Akiyode Lawanson The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has given up on issuing identity cards to enrolled citizens, saying it will now focus on giving National Identification Numbers (NINs) without the card in a three-year plan outlined by […]
Extract: 5.3 Zimbabweans of Foreign Descent: The So-called “aliens” “Aliens” as an exclusionary and almost derogatory category of Zimbabweans is applied by the Registrar General’s office to Zimbabwean citizens who were born of migrant parents. This is despite the fact […]
The Statelessness Focal Points of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) Member States with the support of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency have held their first regional strategic workshop on eradicating statelessness in the region. The workshop […]
Les anciens présidents comoriens Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi et Ikililou Dhoinine sont visés par une procédure judiciaire suite à une affaire de vente de passeports entre 2008 et 2016. Plus de 48 000 passeports ont été accordés à des populations apatrides […]
Les anciens présidents comoriens Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi et Ikililou Dhoinine sont visés par une procédure judiciaire suite à une affaire de vente de passeports entre 2008 et 2016. Plus de 48 000 passeports ont été accordés à des populations apatrides […]
7 – 11 mai 2018 Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire Introduction La nationalité fournit aux individus un sentiment d’identité et crée un lien juridique entre une personne et l’État en leur permettant d’exercer certains droits. Ainsi, l’absence de nationalité peut être vraiment […]
The Botswana government says it will cancel citizenship for all persons above the age of 21, born to a local and a foreigner, who have not renounced citizenship for another country. A child born to a Motswana and a foreigner […]
Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published 36 years ago, in the April 21, 1982 edition of the Daily Observer. Thanks to Theophilus J. W. Browne for resurrecting this article as a tribute to the author, whose arguments provide […]
A/HRC/38/52 Note du secrétariat Le secrétariat a l’honneur de transmettre au Conseil des droits de l’homme le rapport établi par E.Tendayi Achiume, Rapporteuse spéciale sur les formes contemporaines de racisme, de discrimination raciale, de xénophobie et de l’intolérance qui y […]