By ABIUD OCHIENG A ‘stateless’ man from Nairobi, who had for the last 12 years been seeking application as a citizen of Kenya without success, could finally be provided with the crucial documents next month. Mr Kulraj Singh Bhangra, had […]
LSE’s Katy Long argues that the West African model which allows refugees to become migrants is one way to end protracted refugees situations. There is a poster (see below) in my office at LSE. A shot of subway graffiti reading […]
Tel que modifié en dernier lieu par la Loi N° 16/008 du 15 juillet 2016. Télécharger (6 MB): https://www.leganet.cd/Legislation/Code%20de%20la%20famille/CDF.2017.pdf LIVRE Ier – DE LA NATIONALITE CHAP. Ier – DES DISPOSITIONS GENERALES 1 CHAP. II – DE LA NATIONALITE CONGOLAISE D’ORIGINE […]
Paragraphe 5 de la Décision: SE REJOUIT de l’élaboration par la CADHP du projet de Protocole à la Charte africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples relatif aux droits des personnes handicapées en Afrique, du projet de Protocole à […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, has said that the soon-to-be-launched AU passport may not achieve the desired result if it does not have legal framework to support it. He said this in an interview with the News agency […]
Recent Global statistics shows that 230 million under the age of 5 have not been registered, and of these, 85 million are in Sub-Saharan Africa and 135 million in Asia, while 10 million are in the rest of the World. […]
By Mashudu Netsianda THE South African government has denied that it deported Mr Daniel Desire Mncube to Zimbabwe. Mr Mncube (46) claims he was flushed out of South Africa for allegedly violating the neighbouring country’s immigration laws. He found himself […]
By Owen Khamula President Peter Mutharika has said he has ordered his Justice minister Samuel Tembenu to draft a dual citizenship legislation to allow Malawians stuck in diaspora come back home and invest. Mutharika told the state controlled Malawi Broadcasting […]
Members of Parliament on Thursday unanimously passed in to law the National Civil Registration Act, 2016 that called for the compulsory registration of citizens and non-citizens resident in Sierra Leone as well as provide the registrants with multipurpose E-cards. According […]
Action 6 of the Global Action Plan calls on States to grant protection status to stateless migrants through the establishment of statelessness determination procedures, and facilitate their naturalization. A statelessness determination procedure serves to identify stateless persons among migrant populations […]
Citizenship Studies; Volume 20, 2016 – Issue 6-7 By Robtel Neajai Pailey As a twenty-first century post-war, emigrant-sending country, Liberia reflects global citizenship norms while simultaneously departing from them, and this unique positioning offers new opportunities to theorise citizenship across […]
Nigeria’s birth registration is dismal, with only nine of its 36 states, including the federal capital territory, recording up to 50 per cent of their births, a 2016 infographics by AFRI-DEV info has shown. Of all 36 states, Zamfara has the […]