Discussion paper: Forced displacement devastates lives. Most internally displaced people (IDPs) lose their homes, land, livelihoods and personal documentation, and many suffer the death of family members or become separated from them. Their overall experience severely hampers their ability to […]
UNHCR is launching an animation film on statelessness on the occasion of the 74th Ordinary Session of the Council Ministers of the member States of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), being held in Accra on 15 and 16 […]
The Council of State announced Monday it had refused to review the appeal of a French man of Moroccan origin stripped of his French nationality after he was convicted of terrorism charges. Ahmed Sahnouni, a Moroccan naturalized by France in […]
Aid agencies say Nigerian refugees give birth to 45 children every month at the Minawao refugee camp. Most of the children do not have official birth certificates. The government of Cameroon and the United Nations refugee agency [UNHCR] have begun […]
Executive Summary This Lancet Series, which reviews progress since the seminal 2007 series Who counts, describes the growing momentum for civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems in countries and in the global health and development community more broadly, stimulated […]
Download: Angola Lei-Simplificacao-Registo-Nascimento 2015
Burkina Faso and Niger have agreed to exchange 18 towns in order to settle a long-running border dispute and end years of litigation. Burkina Faso is to gain 14 towns and Niger will receive four between now and the end […]
Les paragraphes 17-28 présentent les activités de la Rapporteure spéciale concernant l’apatridie, dont la Réunion d’experts indépendants sur le projet de protocole à la Charte africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples sur le droit à la nationalité en […]
President Peter Mutharika has said government is pushing for the review of the Citizenship Act so that Malawians can start exploiting the benefits of dual citizenship. Mutharika speaking when he opened parliament on Tuesday said the review of Citizenship Act […]
The president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) has promised to revisit the controversial issue surrounding the ceding of Bakassi Peninsula to the Cameroonian government. Buhari said this when a group of nonpartisan Cross River State indigenes paid him a courtesy visit […]
Nick Mangwana View From the Diaspora This writer was under the impression that the dual citizenship debate was now water under the bridge. How could it not be? First there is Chapter 3 in our Constitution, then there are the […]
“We are ridiculed as “batho ba Botswana” (people from Botswana) when we claim our legitimate birth right.’’y It has come to light that contrary to general assumptions that Bakgatla King Kgafela II has attained South African citizenship, the king together […]