Participants at the just ended National Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability conference in Accra have lauded Ghana’s automated birth registration programme, an initiative between Tigo, UNICEF and the Ghana Births and Deaths Registry. Making a presentation to conference participants drawn from […]
By Timothy Moyo Jairos Zhuwaki, is one such a person among thousands others without a clear history of origin, he has lost track of his own family tree and its branches too, and says he has no place to call […]
Reporters sans frontières (RSF) dénonce la condamnation inique du journaliste indépendant Baba Alpha, à deux ans de prison et dix ans de privation de tout droit civique et politique. Le 18 juillet, le journaliste Baba Alpha et son père d’origine […]
When the United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF in collaboration with the Bauchi state government and the National Population Commission, NPC, flagged off the massive birth registration campaign of children under the age of five years in the state, residents of communities […]
Do you know that the Citizenship of Zimbabwe Act and the Immigration Act is out dated and far behind in terms of alignment with the new Constitution of Zimbabwe? Do you know, every Zimbabwean citizen and everyone else who is […]
The Supreme Court of Sudan reaffirmed the right Sudanese women to confer nationality on their children in a July 6 decision. This important advancement for gender equal nationality rights underscores the need for the country’s Nationality Act to be aligned […]
Editorial The government could do more to cushion the plight of Bakassi people Following heavy-handed laws and state-sponsored violence from the Cameroonian authorities, thousands of Nigerians have fled Abana, the headquarters of Bakassi Peninsula which is currently under the sovereignty […]
Peine lourde pour le journaliste de la chaîne privée Bonférey Baba Alpha et son père, détenus depuis le 3 avril à la prison de Niamey. La justice nigérienne vient de les condamner à deux ans de prison pour faux et […]
Le 9 mai 2017, la lutte contre l’apatridie faisait un pas de plus en Afrique de l’Ouest. Ce jour-là, à Banjul, la Communauté Economique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) a adopté un Plan d’action pour régulariser le million […]
By Farren Collins Government brought brief relief to Angolan former refugees when it granted a blanket exemption to those who qualified‚ but would not provide reasons why it was limited to a period of four years. In a landmark decision […]
This Update highlights many activities and developments on statelessness that have taken place globally in the last three months, demonstrating the ongoing commitment to eradicating statelessness: Madagascar and Sierra Leone have amended their nationality laws to grant women equal rights […]
1. Aperçu Selon une étude de cas de 2015 sur les passeports électroniques au Soudan, publiée par HJP Consulting, une entreprise qui [traduction] « a offert des services de consultation et de gestion de projet aux fins de la planification, du […]