The Government of the Gambia has announced the immediate suspension of passports and national identity cards production until further notice. The decision according to the Ministry of the Interior, will enable the relevant authorities to protect and promote the integrity […]
Par Geraldine Geoffroy Selon la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme de 1948, tout individu a droit à une nationalité et nul ne peut être arbitrairement privé de sa nationalité, ni du droit de changer de nationalité. Les critères d’attribution […]
Action 2 of the Global Action Plan calls on States to ensure that no child is born stateless. Only if statelessness among children is addressed will the objective of the Global Action Plan – to end all statelessness by 2024 […]
By Spokesperson Registrar-General’s Department WE wish to respond for the benefit of the public to an article titled “Call to relax birth registration process” by your Senior Reporter Zvamaida Murwira in The Herald of Saturday, 25 February 2017. The Department […]
By John Nditi in Morogoro ONLY people with valid birth certificates will be allowed to get married effective May 1, 2017, it was declared here yesterday. Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Harrison Mwakyembe directed the Registration, Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency […]
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says a stateless person does not have a nationality of any country. It notes further that while some people are born stateless — not considered as a national by any state under […]
By GABRIELLE LYNCH In Summary While the 1999 National Census opted not to publish ethnic data, the 2009 count provided codes for no less than 111 ethnic groups. The Nubians, for example, argued that, while their forefathers had come to […]
“We had rights but we did not know how to enjoy these rights because we did not have identity cards.” By Modesta Ndubi, Kwale, Coast, Kenya | 15 Mar 2017 “The day I got my Kenyan identity card I came home […]
« L’apatridie et droit à une nationalité », était le thème de la restitution de la formation sur l’apatridie organisée ce mercredi 15 mars 2017 par le Ministère de l’Administration du Territoire et de la Gouvernance Locale en collaboration avec […]
By Latifat Opoola « When I enrolled for the National Identity card early last year, I had expected the card would be ready in at most six months’ time. Whenever I go to their office, it has always been ‘go and […]
Par Ziad Alami Les Sahraouis de Tindouf sont sommés de remettre leur passeport algérien dès leur retour de l’étranger. Une restriction de mouvement et une discrimination contre lesquelles ils protestent en menaçant de recourir au « statut d’apatride », faute de bénéficier […]
Nationality laws which do not grant women equality with men in conferring nationality to their children are a cause of statelessness and a concern for UNHCR under its mandate to prevent and reduce statelessness. Since 2012, UNHCR has issued an […]